Tridents of Glass and Other Poems

<p><strong>Tridents of Glass</strong> is a single long poem told in twenty-four movements exploring love memory and desire in a world shaped by technology abstraction and collapse. Intimate lyric passages are framed by choral poems that widen into visions of cities systems and forces beyond individual control placing private experience inside an unsettled modern landscape.</p><p>The poem moves fluidly between the sensual and the cosmic: lovers recalled through touch scent and place are set against planets entropy and the vast indifference of the universe. Scientific and cultural references ground the work in contemporary life while giving human longing a stark sense of scale.</p><p>Deliberately expansive and fragmented <em>Tridents of Glass</em> embraces disjunction as part of its meaning. Influenced by writers such as T. S. Eliot Rilke Allen Ginsberg René Char Louise Glück and Bob Dylan it belongs to the tradition of late-modern long poems that resist easy resolution or consolation.</p><p><em>Tridents of Glass</em> is a work about intimacy under pressure-about love remembered clearly because it cannot be repaired and about language persisting in a world where silence is no longer possible.</p><p>The remainder of the collection was culled from the 1980s to the present including a large body written in 2022 after Tridents of Glass exploring lighter moods and more divergent styles.</p>