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A Surprise in the Shrublands
Field notes of an evening hunt whereas the hunter I became the hunted, captured in a free-verse poem with internal rhyme schemes.
Morning Reprise
Heaven is all around us, and certainly within the beauty of a majestic morning reprise, captured in a simple free-verse poem.
Rain Over Puntarenas
A series of ramages gives an account of observation while caught in a rainstorm within the bar island community of Puntarenas, Costa Rica. The poem is really about vulnerability, especially in this area. The pirate Chipperton journaled to have arrived at a "Punta de Arena", or “Sandy Point” in 1720, referring to its long, needle-like surface threaded miles out into the Pacific.
Sonnet of the Songbird
This poem employs the poetic form of the classical Shakespearean sonnet, capturing the morning magic of songbirds over the high plains of Taos in late summer.
I Don’t Know
In the company of best friends and with hearts for all things Latin America, several of us stumbled into this unforgettable “experience” in the streets of Antigua … so much more than a bar.
Night Train To Prague
This poem is about place, as an observer from a high-speed train crossing from Germany into the Czech Republic. It is a poem of speculation and imagination as I move across the car in the waking hours.
Big Mouth (El Boquerón)
Fed by a prompt, this poem captures the fragility of millions of people living in the shadows of San Salvador's dormant volcano.
I Want To Believe
Ted Kooser’s “A Birthday Card” inspired this poem. The idea of this work is to share the sense of an active imagination while being firmly rooted in the hardship of one local - a remote campsite.
The Giving Tree
An everyday observation of the Texas hunting culture and its provisions for those in need.
Down at the Dairy Queen
The poem came out of the joy I find returning to my roots, sitting around the coffee table at The Dairy Queen with my elders.
The Metal Silence
Author’s note: The dominance of Salvadoran gangs and efforts to end them have left loved ones of the imprisoned helpless, where many are first held in a little jail on the streets of San Salvador, El Penalito, which has been referred to as ground zero for perhaps the most aggressive police repression in Central American history. I have seen it. Here is my poem recollecting my introduction to both the conditions of El Salvador’s prisons and the actions of its detainees.
Chinese Puzzle
At first glance, the Tangram (qiqiao bon) offers its player only “seven boards of skill,” but can yield thousands of worldly designs, proving that sometimes the simplest things are surprisingly complex.
