Poetry

Articles and Prose

  • A Collection of Sculptures

    The purpose of my artwork is to invoke an awakening of the sensual. Stimulating a perceptual, internal, and intellectual response for the viewer: a visual…

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  • Unabated Wildfires Within Maples

    Morphologies emerge in variable ways, Protruding through space and time, Yielding multifarious mazes.

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    a single tree with a web of branches and bright orange and red leaves

  • The Apple Orchard

    When we moved back to Michigan, we bought an old farmhouse on five acres. I was still married then, with three young daughters and soon…

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  • The Quiet Season

    The days are short and cold, and it snowed last Sunday. The tree canopies, now brown, have thinned. The birds have begun migrating southwards —…

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  • The Felled and the Fallen

    Ring in two by twos,Twinning from the same root. Count the yearsOh! The years —You can only see themWhen they’re sliced in two.Cut down, dismembered,See…

  • The Cow in the Room

    People often avoid the elephant in the room, but it’s time we talk about the cow in the room. She is a ruminant, after all,…

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  • Eyes

    Blue eyes, sometimes grey and stormy Others clear as cloudless day. One moment safe Enveloped in translucent depths Next, the ice wall melts Glaciers crash…

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  • Beyond This Room

    Sure Thing It is that with which the wind blows And the snowflakes carry from the skies The mountains echo in their deep crevasses The…

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Photo Essays