"When You're Asked on a Date and You're Seventy-Eight: A Little Book of Poems and Poetry Reflecting Situations, Opinions and Moods of the Golden Generation"

New Haven poet and author Dana Wilcox describes the reason she writes poetry:

"I write poetry because there are moments in my life that I want to hold on to and never let go. Poetry describes a moment, captures it so that you can revisit it as many times as you want. " One such moment is captured in the poem When You're Asked on a Date and You're Seventy-Eight. This poem describes a real event in the life of it's author. Dana was "asked on a date at seventy-eight." This was one moment she always wanted to have with her...

When you're aksed on a date,

And you're seventy-eight,

By a man half your age,

Oh, it wouldn't be sage,

But it just might be fun,

For two seconds - or one,

But perhaps t'would be best,

To imagine the rest.

Dana Wilcox (Maria Elena Pignatelli) is a local poet and writer. She has been writing for over 40 years. She read from her humorous book of poems When Your Asked On  a  Date And You're Seventy Eight at the Hagaman Library, on Wednesday, April 25. Dana's mother, Constance Wilcox, was a member of the well-known touring repertoire theater group, The Jitney Players (1923-1940), which began in Madison, Connecticut around 1910. Dana co-authored a book called Vision Day Care, the story of recent college graduate, Trevor Broklehurst,who takes a job in a daycare facility situated in a Connecticut shoreline town.