
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.

On the River We Float II
The river we float has a pace
beyond the town’s prepared embrace,
as our untempered souls regale in
the submerged acknowledgments as life
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Open Doors and Windows
I hear music in the mountains.
I recognize the grip of gravel.

Music
To enchantingly ease and soothe regrets
From the highest past joys lost”

Memories to Forget

Cataloged

Bookshelves

Decks, Porches, and Pavilions

Pets

Garden Flowers

Rain Gauges

Clothing Lines

Dinner Table

Fire

Cutting Boards

Stories of Home

Small Town

Mast Years

Patience

Imposed Necessities
