My poetry has appeared in the Barefoot Review, Cave Wall, DMQ Quarterly, Tellus, Montserrat Review, Many Mountains Moving, The Call, The Practice of Peace and other national literary reviews and anthologies. I’ve received Artist Residency fellowships from the Jentel Foundation, www.jentelarts.org, for poetry and for collaborative work with printmaker Cindy Davis. "The Habit of Time" was a finalist for the Emily Dickinson Award of The Poetry Society of America.

The Habit of Time

What tense calls us

night after summer night

through the roses and jasmine

spending themselves

in the cool copper air?

Retina, stem, cerebrum —

these tenancies shimmer

and wink out, habits of holding.

Our home is the center

of the bees' winged flame.

It opens the rose, the hip,

the coming dark.