Again with the Light: Poems

With poems composed over five decades but predominantly for his 2016 Ashland University MFA thesis of the same title Again with the Light is a collection drawn from an entire life. It comes first from a childhood on the autistic spectrum improperly diagnosed in which a fascination with forests trees birds water and rough pathways of the literal and metaphorical kind provide a landscape of imagery for the whole. Increasingly an attraction toward Christ leads through numerous permutations of faith and various Christian communities to Eastern Orthodoxy an earthy unearthly place with a connection to kenosis and theosis. Along the way come lives of saints and prosodic experiments in a postmodern but reachable style.