TO HAVE THE TRUTH SEEN AND RECOGNIZED. sideways six hoursfrom noon this light this latefall sunset lasts halfthe day This poem was originally published in an anthology of writing about landscape. Where you live determines your experience of light. I grew up in a mountain mining town at the end
BRIGHT STARS SPEAK OF YOUR VIRTUES …speak of how we don’t look up anymore because there’s nothing to see but a few fixed stars a satellite…. Sometimes I take great pleasure out of going in a completely different direction than the obvious. The title of this poem is actually a
THIS GRAND BOOK THE UNIVERSE the aerodynamics of eyelashand blinkleaves caught in a gusta burstof dreaming Yes, I guess you could call it a sort of love poem – at least this short stanza from the larger whole. Lesson 3 was completed using a gold nib. People who like Pelikan
The second lesson uses lines from a poem about, surprise, death – among other things. I suspect most of us are familiar with the concept of a cemetery in the middle of a city. Nothing unusual there, right? But how did those cemeteries get to be in the middle of
So my first book of poetry is being published in April 2020 by Turnstone Press out of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. “Lunatic Engine” took me more than a decade to put together and it’s got a lot going on. So much going on in fact that I’d like to introduce it
Lunatic Engine 