New Poems

Afterwards Whether they be high or low the future Seas will wash shores somewhere shelves of shale Wear and crack sandstone dissolve to dunes Crustaceans scuttle . . . New Poems reflects on the state of our planet. It explores insights from Pascal Euler Feynman and other physicists and anatomizes spiritual epiphanies. These excursions join poems about the lives of immigrants and refugees and the paradoxes of how they settled on Native American lands once claimed by conquistadores. Californias arid valleys deserts and coastal bluffs frame many of these portraits as does the often-imperiled endurance of Californias oaks. Music meaning and meter are married in poems that employ blank verse sonnets canzone and other forms bound by the structure of rhyme and rhythm.