Remembering Frans

Poems to Frans and about death, June & July 2019 Cloudscapes Everything is more beautiful and painful now and that’s the deal no one escapes you showed me light and shadow enacted and reflected Enriched by love’s long apprenticeship I thought today about how you dove towards death I had never seen someone do it …

About my poetry book Happy

I received this gracious comment from author Kim Stafford about my poetry book Happy which is only available in syllabus form at the moment.  “This book offers you three gifts: story-based considerations of our need for the strength of solace, poems that work like singing spells to advance that solace, and the whole project’s invitation …