THE EDGE
Poetry, Prose and Paintings
Written from mid 2022 and 2023. These pieces explore the personal and political.
“...Speak to the apogee
Distance yourself from the path
Orient yourself outside of orbit
It’s time to undock
Begin your first sleep”
NO SERVICE
Poems, Prose and Preaching
Written between 2021 and 2022, ‘No Service’ was partially inspired by a stormy drive along the coast from California to Oregon. This book explores scapes, religion, the internal, loss and love.
“...Come to the water...Baptize yourself in dust...Sprinkle on your hands the particles of stone...Of memories...Of moments of us in the loam...
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A STORY
Selected Poems and Prose
This selection of poems and prose was written between 2018 and 2021. ‘A Story’ explores love, symbolism, beginnings, endings, and the internal.
“There was always a story
A story formed by gently undulating hills and lingering brush
The kind that makes you wonder who walked there before
An antediluvian land that took its time to tell a secret...”
BENEATH THE BOUGHS
Selected Poems and Prose
This selection of poems and prose was written between 2012 and 2018. Beneath the Boughs touches on nature, love, loss and time.
“... here is where we are meant to reside
here beneath the boughs
that love
has contrived.”
BURNING BEE
Selected Early Poems and Prose
This selection of early poems and prose was written before 2012. Burning Bee explores many subjects from nature to the full scope of human emotion and belief.
“I desire
yesterdays lips
Your hushed thoughts
And my dark lingering gaze
Loving you
Quietly ”