Poetry

Ethyle Playing Poker To Be Asked Resuscitation Food At the Airport Channel Surf Will You Come Before Winter? Christmas Archangel Things Are Unsaid Nobake Hunger Longing Soft Death by Settling Down Seven Colors of Love Anticipation A New Name The Way We Were Unpublished Poems Reprimand Sleepless Skyline Infringement Real Cold Stone People Resume But If You Must Fly Away Twenty Years of Dust Surge Inspiration Here You Are Timing Promise Me Spider Webs Beautiful Is Daddy’s Gal Wanting Mysteries Adrift Pursuit Of Unknown Unspoken Emerging Writing Subtleties Unfurling When a Man Loves a Woman A Winter Night Chocolate The Calling Sinner’s Prayer So This is Happiness Loneliness Espionage Sensibility Close Encounters Beautiful is the Mention of Your Name Nothing To Say Das Wohltemperierte Klavier Shifting Sands The Mould If My Brother Were in Town Hospitality Lullaby for a Foreigner Dirty Old Men Cry Not Music Is

I began writing poetry in 2008, after a few years devoted to songwriting. I have never received any training in writing poetry, nor am I an avid poetry reader. I do, however, recall being deeply moved as a teenager by a collection of very witty, though abstract, poems by a Polish author (unfortunately I don’t remember his name). I also enjoy the writings of Czesław Miłosz and Wisława Szymborska. I find a great release in expressing my creativity through metaphorical and abstract writing, especially when conventional language and prose often seem to only address the superficial layers of human experience. In my poetry I often explore themes of uncertainty, loss, spirituality, sensuality, relationships, and absurdity of the contemporary world.