spring thaw

Months since my last post… but there have been verdant moments. I was pleased to share my collection Grunt Work with friends and family in December. There is a new collection gradually gathering itself for release, the poems continue to flow and I am grateful....

Mistress

There is a place beyond doubt   where meaning speaks so clear that purpose is obvious even as it makes no sense   artists splashing their detritus on walls hailed as beauty or junk – opinion so secondary to the primacy of the call   urgency of the...

november motion

My poems are crawling along towards some unseen new place and I am posting this only as a way of marking movement… to say another manuscript will be birthed soon… and to say thanks to the folks at this...

Loving What Is

Have had my mind ripped up and put back together in new shapes after reading Byron Katie’s “Loving What Is”… I know the book’s tone has some of that over-the-top California exuberance and I’m not sure I’d want to visit her...

Flint and steel

I keep thinking I know what you’re working on or should be especially when you tell me you are lost my list of maps to helpful treasures is inspiring but the truth is, I have no clue. I see your flint and steel and see your candle sometimes lit and wish you well...