My chapbook, Coronary Truth, is now available

Coronary Truth, published by Kelsay Books, is a brief collection of poems that examine our shared experience of fragility through such diverse subjects as the lifespan of a dragonfly, the shock of a friend’s heart attack, the navigation of blind fish, and the mystical waters of baptism. Most of the poems are written in free verse, but there are a half dozen formal poems in the mix.

"…remember
that something has to die so that something
can emerge. When death arrives on giant wings,
prepare to be a midwife."
--from “Heeding Signs”

I am afraid: for him,
and for our hearts, no longer protected
by pure being, but rendered fragile
as hummingbird eggs by a lifetime
of confinement in human cages."
--from “Coronary Truth”

"A shiver of lost time jolts my body
like an electric shock, a ghost of a childhood
memory clutches my chest, the mystery
of nature renders me a thread of a fragment
of nothing…."
--from “Meditation on Dusk”

Coronary Truth can be purchased here.