"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all." Emily Dickinson
Book News!
My new full length book of poems, Everybody Wants to Keep the Moon Inside Them came out in April!
Order my book directly from my press or fill out my Contact link with your address and I'll mail you a signed copy. I take Venmo or checks.
My book launch was on Wed. April 9
at the amazing downtown Ann Arbor District Library.
Thank you to my friends, poets Monica Rico, Scott Beal, and Ashwini Bhasi for being a part of my event. It was a wonderful night!
Photo by Jeff Spaulding
Poem to share
Rain Light
By W. S. Merwin
February 24, 2008
All day the stars watch from long ago
my mother said I am going now
when you are alone you will be all right
whether or not you know you will know
look at the old house in the dawn rain
all the flowers are forms of water
the sun reminds them through a white cloud
touches the patchwork spread on the hill
the washed colors of the afterlife
that lived there long before you were born
see how they wake without a question
even though the whole world is burning
Published in the print edition of the New Yorker
March 3, 2008, issue.
