Water under Snow

Poetry Collection

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In these poems I explore the intersection of the human and natural worlds with an eye toward what can be celebrated in both. A central theme is the call to pay attention to both worlds while we "have world enough and time." The collection draws on imagery of the familiar, a bull moose in a school parking lot, loons on a lake seen through a window, a photographer on the Atlantic coast. Time plays a role in these relationships, as in poems that look back on childhood experiences, and in those that reflect on the mortality of things living and man-made.

Sample poem:

The Commonplace World

Disguising the brown lawn and fallen leaves,
snow slowly blanks the ordinary.
A tricycle in the yard disappears, toy trucks
abandoned when October arrived,
a lawn mower someone
forgot to put away.
They fade in eerie silence,
the flower pots,
brick walk where they sit,
picnic table and benches,
putting on layers of white
beside the grill of August’s
barbecue. By evening
someone standing on the porch
will see no more than the faint
outline of an Adirondack chair,
and will take that image into the house,
recalling the commonplace world,
beneath the uncommon snow.