Consider the River
Chapbook, published December 2023
From the introduction: “I’m nowhere close to being a fully integrated, totally authentic human being, but this little book is a leap of courage and an expectant longing towards that raw and shimmering goal. The following poems follow long threads of shame and disillusionment that are deeply woven into the fabric of my faith. I’m grieving the high cost of beliefs that have hurt me, and others through me, so badly. Simultaneously, I’m poking my fingers through the holes of an ever changing reality, I’m sorting through the shattered pieces, I’m swimming in lakes I’ve never swam in, I’m trying to let all that is awkward and unfinished and unknown, just be.”
Sixfold Poetry Winter 2022
Five poems, pages 79-84
“… the blue heron, the ballerina, the sneeze / of a hundred swallows in perfect swarm / yet, the more I walk in the world the more / I am squinting through a hole, a small / sliver of unrelenting light, blurry and bidding / me close the very eyes I cannot see, blue / I am straining and mis-pronunciating a / stranger to these perfect days …”
—From I know that it’s profound, the livingness of things
