Published Poems, Press, and Practice Poems.
Poems on this page often move between draft and published. You’ll see a book cover when a poem is published and part of a print collection. When poems are removed, they go to my workshop with other draft poems to be posted on this site later, or it is in the workshop to be published in my next collection. Posting poems on this site helps me view them in a new light. Generally, poems move through significant revision (though folks who write poetry often never tell you as such) to reach their potential. In a way, it’s like a different music set list for my inspirational occasions.
Bouquet of Nettles
Douglas Fir
Infused Path
On the Mountain
On My Way
Amble
Dusk
Myrtle Grove
Maple Leaves Piled in the Dry Creek Bed
Woodstove in the Old Ranch House
Himalayan Blackberry
Cow Jam
My first word as a child was cow.
At five o’clock,
twice each-and-every day,
some fifty-five cows, or more,
would pass my way,
The Wind Storm
Barbed Wire
Old leather gloves
and wound metal of barbed wire,
dry my sweating hands
from nicks and new scars’ ire,
so let this western red cedar
Gone Too Soon
Afternoon Music Hour
Night Swimming
Mr. Buzzard
Coos River Cemetery
