Below is an excerpt from my latest publication in Damselfly Press's issue 30--my poem titled "Pulse" that is set to appear in my next collection, The Starling's Song (2015) PULSE Listen to the Poem Eating blue mussels from the perfect domes of their shells, you twist a slice of orange into the foam of your [...]
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‘The Weight of Snow’ Receives Honorable Mention in the 2014 San Francisco Book Festival!
Celebrating the best books of the spring, the judges of San Francisco Book Festival reward The Weight of Snow with Honorable Mention in their 2014 contest! Praise for The Weight of Snow "The poems in The Weight of Snow are heartfelt, skillfully written, and keenly observed fragments of the natural world and our lives there. Bravo." - [...]
POETRY: Excerpt from ‘The Weight of Snow’ (Black Swift Press, 2014)
CLIMBING NORTH MOUNTAIN IN SPRING Sonata of the mockingbirds from the high limbs of the poplar, the curtains shift; petals are loosened from the tangle of bougainvillea vine, are pulled to the earth in a brilliant snow of tangerine and magenta. I go north, the noise too unsettling, climb small Sugarloaf Mountain to wander through [...]
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