Pre-solstice Lament [POEM]
Honored to have a vulnerable piece titled Pre-solstice Lament featured in A Sufferer's Digest. Pre-solstice Lament
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Loving and Leaving the Good Life - by Helen Nearing [BOOK REVIEW]
Thoughts on: Loving and Leaving the Good Life by Helen Nearing This isn't a well edited or carefully packaged literary review meant to give some concise synopsis of the book or cast a critical light on the author. I simply want to to share a free-form journal entry and few closing thoughts after finishing this book. Think of it as rough sawn timber - not dimensional lumber: My background connection to Helen and Scott Nearing include reading their works The Good Life and Continuing The Good Life - each of which read as much more matter-of-fact homesteading journals and manuals. I was amazed and pleasantly surprised by the sheer worldly-ness and diverging context of both Helen and Scott's lives before settling into their work together in Vermont and Maine. Their personal connections to turn of the century class struggle and class consciousness, esoteric religion and astrology had me hooked - if not fascinated and enraptured. The literary, philosophical and religious influence and...
Americorps First [POEM]
Grateful to have my work featured in the Dissident Voice newsletter - beyond frustrated that our federal government is de-funding Americorps. Please see some resources below for actionable steps and to give my poem a read: HOW TO HELP Americorps First keep on trekking.
Plenty Left to Right About [POEM]
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Plenty Left to Right About Beyond pleased to share that my poem Plenty Left to Right About was selected as the winner of this weeks prompt, The Local Unknown by London Writer's Salon, and is featured in Writer's Hour Magazine as of this morning. Please check it out and give it a like! I've been quietly writing for the better part of 17 years, filling up more journals, shoeboxes, and hard-drives than I care to publicly admit. This spring I've finally stepped over that barrier and I'm submitting my work out into the world. More writing to share coming soon, but a first publishing credit feels like a meaningful milestone!
Tributaries to Cispus [POEM]
for Nick Saling On Yellowjackets plain Autumn’s jacket Of velvet sunshine Warms Comforts and Mends
A Bucker Feller [POEM]
A Bucker Feller for Nick Saling Freezer burned lupine Hearts of cotton Holding wood Full of memories