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In the last 5 years, Prinnie McCourt has spent time in numerous hospitals. These poems are the result of inactivity and boredom.

In 1967 Leah Commoss arrives in Turkey to teach on Karamursel Air Station (KAS), an American 'intelligence gathering' base where secret Russian radio transmissions are monitored.She soon realizes there's more intrigue on the base than in the air waves above it.Leah is drawn into a frenzied dance of vindictive rumor and innuendo, choreographed by a sinister Turkish woman she barely knows, and whose motives she cannot even imagine.After finding a dead man on base, and another floating in the Dead Sea, Leah is dubbed "a walking international incident" by policemen of several countries.Leah's teaching responsibilities and travel perks can only partially divert her concern over unwarranted harassment, imminent arrest, and the black market activities she's discovered rampant on KAS.Caught up in this uncontrollable whirl of events, Leah discovers there is no way to safely sit out "dancing with a dervish."

GOING TO THE DOGS AND OTHER DESTINATIONScontains unsung songs of alien lands and life forms here on Earth. Like the irritant that causes the oyster to form a pearl, life's inconsistencies and ironies created these songs.

It's 1966 on Clark Air Base (CAB) in the Philippine Islands, where wedding rings languish in underwear drawers, the Viet Nam war rages less than an hour away, and black flies feed on a body in the teachers' BOQ housing.Teachers usually die of old age, but on CAB death is accelerated by forces the Department of Defense never factored in when, every August, they delivered thousands of young civilian women to teach on American military bases from Goose Bay, Labrador, to Luzon, Philippines.Out of those thousands, seven single women find that, as forewarned by a drunken colonel, living on an airbase in Southeast Asia is equivalent to "dancing on a serpent."

A collaboration between an octogenarian and a teenager!Mission Impossible?Not at all! Prinnie McCourt and her 13 year old "niece-let" (aka grand niece),Willow Sprague-Robinson, have combined Willow's illustrations with Prinnie's poems in Views from a Bus Window, a "travel-memoir" of sights and impressions from Prinnie's years of teaching on American Air Bases in the Philippine Islands and Turkey during the late 1960's.

In this, her twelfth poetry book, Prinnie writes about people, including Sarah, her three month old great grandchild. In the section about Animals she tells us about her close encounter with a woolly mammoth, and about lessons she learned from her neighbor's barnyard. In her travelogue/memoir, Views from Bus Windows, she gives us her insightful impressions from traveling from her home in the Philippine Islands to Vietnam, and throughout Southeast Asia.

As suggested in Prinnie's title poem, Trace Evidence, writing exposes the concerns and passions of the writer. That is evident throughout this, her 11th book of poetry. In poems like Cowtipping, The Stampede, and Equine Child, Prinnie reveals her empathy with, and awe of, the domestic and feral animals she's encountered during her twenty-one years in New Mexico. Other poems, such as Port of Entry-USA and Other Women reflect the on-going tensions, questions, and conflict surrounding the Mexican border, less than twenty miles from her front door. Another border that intrigues Prinnie is that of time, as expressed in Heavenly Wind (a prehistoric bird), A Space in Time, and Baby Pictures. Using her words as your microscope, come explore the depths of a mind and imagination other than your own.

Who would believe a college poetry class could be hazardous to your health? After Nancy Murphy, senior citizen, witnesses the bullying tactics of the teacher, and the back-stabbing antics of the students, she plans to drop out, until she is distracted by impromptu lessons in on-line dating. When the first student dies a very un-poetic death, Nancy asks her long-time friend, Leah, and her husband Zach, a retired Air Force investigator, to look into it. Their goal, to prevent any more students from dropping out, permanently.

In this, her tenth poetry book, Prinnie's subjects range from a rant about The Spoiled Generation, millennials' exalted ideas of what they expect in a new home, to wondering about the future of the First Baby Born on Mars. She ponders the role of fate in our lives in two poems: The Stampede and Feeding Kittens while Watching for a Mushroom Cloud. In White Water World, Prinnie ends her book with a forecast about the tumultuous situations our children may be navigating in years to come.

When Leah Commoss, travel junkie and Department of Defense teacher, boards the Orient Express from Istanbul in 1968, she begins a journey through the Iron Curtain and into the realms of murder, theft, and plague. A flirtatious stranger disappears, another is a possible suicide, a desperately sick woman is spirited off the train, and even Leah's nemesis is thwarted time after time by the Bulgarian government. Quarantined aboard the train with a possible multiple-murderer, Leah is trapped in what will explode into an international disaster.

Seriously? In this, her sixth book of poetry, Prinnie's subjects range from: ingrown toenails, Turkish delights, lilacs, blue rocks, football, a snow goose, the dust bowl, orioles, ambition, mortality, seduction, and so much more. Seriously? Oh, yes!