In this chapbook collection of free verse, I have attempted to capture my ever evolving understanding of life’s process, i.e., the nature of things.

This is the final poetry chapbook within my “Pattern and Form” trilogy, which works with the (mostly) traditional sonnet, waka, and acrostic forms.

This chapbook collection of poetry is the second in my work with traditionally structured poems– sonnet, waka, acrostic –which began with my last chapbook, aptly named “Pattern and Form.”

A chapbook collection which contains three poetic forms — sonnet, waka, acrostic — that attempt to impart the flow of life within the Patterns and Forms that both confine and define our experience of it. 

After finishing my “man love” chapbook, I wanted to write something new. I eventually settled on a group of prose poems that reflect the changing light of life’s end game, and have constructed a chapbook using them.

to find the answer
we’d need the wisdom of trees
we’d need to listen… 

I wanted to share a few lines from poet Diane Wakoski that do a wonderful job of explaining what poetry has always meant to me.