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  • An exciting new publication, Deep Wild Journal, focused on wilderness encounters, has picked up one of the poems from my “Barbed Wire” series. Deep Wild‘s second anthology-format volume was just published and can be found through their website: https://deepwildjournal.com/.

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  • “Preliminary Visions” published

    Prelminary Visions is available directly from me or certain bookstores. From the cover: “In the deep woods, hikers say, if you feel you are being watched by an animal, you probably are. Preliminary Visions creates moments of being, moments of relation, moments of meaning-making—frequently with that sense of being observed by a silent witness and…

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  • So light passes through leaf

    I have to either: a) stop rewriting or b) stop sending out poems that later turn out to be unfinished. Your vote counts. Case in point: this poem, “So light passes through leaf,” was just published by the sweet little Tiny Seed Journal. And I immediately am rewriting it in my head. Maybe it’s time…

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  • Took ten years to publish my poem in the form of ten poems, but I love the way Sediments Literary Arts Journal did it, by dispersing the parts throughout their Happy Holidays issue: https://sedimentslit.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/happy_holidays.pdf

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  • “Little Green Bee” was published today on The RavensPerch: here Same website published one of my favorites: “The Path of the bee”: here And “Locus of control”: here And a little Buddhist whiff in “Canoe”: here

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  • “Bones to the maple”

    “Bones to the maple” posits a fox’s response to acid rain in the forest of the northeastern US. The poem was published in Blueline: A Literary Magazine in the Spirit of the Adirondacks XXXVI (Spring 2015), p. 118.

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  • listening

    an open window a tree the sound of a man typing music of a bamboo flute a woman with closed eyes, sitting through an open window, a tree in a forest, one tree the man stops to eat the woman stops to think the tree goes on listening This poem was published in Preliminary Visions.

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