"Monica's poems are lyrical like songs that surge wave upon wave to the shoreline. Many of the lyrics are entities by themselves but become reborn within a different context and emotional kinship when you hear them sung. They have the energy of Rimbaud, Shelly or Keats from a distant corridor of time, but they are modern words with an immediacy and intensity that knows no partition. Monica has a modern voice. She is a late 20th century, early 21st century songstress riding her real and imagined steed, as if within the frame of a Marc Chagall painting." Lester Hirsh Poet, Singer/Songwriter www.bignoise.com/hirsh