Jean Lusk (Madrona Grove)
Patterns on Parquet (Archives, 811) is a little book of Jean’s poems, illustrated by her daughter Cheryl Lasiter and published in 1990. Written during the 1980s the poems explore grief, loss, and rebirth.
Jean is known at Rose Villa for her Christmas poems, written for the annual United Christian Fellowship banquet. Here are four of Jean’s Christmas Poems.