I was honored by poet Judy Kaber selecting this poem from My First Beatrice for her poetry column. Read it, and her marvelous introduction HERE.
Category: Poems
Night Garden title poem featured in Maine Arts Journal
Read the title poem from Night Garden along with a beautiful introduction by poet Betsy Sholl in the Winter 2024 Maine Arts Journal.
Poem on the radio
Listen to “Off Paxil, I Revisit a Box of Old Photos and Letters”, featured on Poems from Here on Maine Public Radio.
from My First Beatrice
STORM IN MAINE Rain on the roof, the Atlantic a mile away. Dark liquid coursing through arteries— rivers rushing toward flood stage. When the sky’s all water and earth’s flowing to catch up, what’s the difference? Wide awake after midnight in a little house of wood by the sea, my craft in the storm, what’s… Continue reading from My First Beatrice
Newer Poems
read Cribstone Bridge, Bailey Island Maine & Outskirts in Innisfree Poetry Journal LISTENING TO JOHN COLTRANE WITH MY BABY DAUGHTER To praise you is the desire of man— Augustine again—and who am I to disagree Holding my eight month old At the embered end of a fussy winter afternoon When she finally settles… Continue reading Newer Poems