This page serves as a “Table of Contents” with links to some poems and prose I hope you find interesting or entertaining. A few years ago, I began a text called The House with a Hundred Doors and a Thousand Windows: A Personal Poetics. I will continue to develop that book, here. That process will also allow me to share some poems and my thoughts about those poems. Below that, I will link some individual prose works.
The House with a Hundred Doors and a Thousand Windows: A Personal Poetics
Part 1: Claiming the Key to the Unknown Door
Part 2: Looking for the Right Neighborhood
I Have Dreamed a Hundred Whispers Before One Knows of Failure
“A Fog Pushed Against the Window” When You See a Fork in the Road
How I Came to Write this Poem You May As Well Believe
“You Know that Burning that I Felt” The Eros of Revision
The Dying Leaves Learning from the Masters
Part 2: Making the House Your Own
The Vision When One Line Bends Toward the Other
Found Things Lines and Stanzas
The Light through the Peaks The Deep Image
Easter
Searching the Parking Lot for a Poem Stripping in Bare
290 West
Soulmates
Late Night Laying It out in Simple Lines
A Dream of Grace Following the Thread
The Laying on of Hands The Ultimate Contradiction
Midlife Christmas Driving and Listening
Part III: Inviting the Neighbors in for Drinks
The Other Writers Block Submission
ConVersing Merton
InKlinations 1
Writing a Poem in Two Minutes
The Arrow of Contentment
After Hades, Always Persephone Myths and Structures
Awaiting Word Line and Sentence
Home Sick Constructing Desire/Bits and Pieces
Part IV: Keeping the Lights on Past Midnight
Ice Storm
Midnight
Safe House
Free Will
Spring
Three Teslas
Boho Girl
Orientalism
Polite Discord
Other Prose
Saturday Mornings with Roy Bedichek
Hiding Out at the Kerrville Folk Festival