I have been writing poetry for the better part of my life. However, since you could, quite successfully, blackmail me with the poems written in my childhood and teenage years, these poems are strictly confidential! Perhaps a few words about those that aren’t:
I write mostly in free verse, but free verse isn’t all you’ll find reading my work…after all, who doesn’t turn to the warm and familiar dance of a common measure poem in the face of life’s uncertainties? And who doesn’t, after all is said and done, seek a quiet walk along the shores of a sonnet?
As for subject matter, I write about all that inspires me: could be love, nature, human compassion, gender equality, poetry itself, language, or even something as taken-for-granted as a kettle, a sewing kit, etc.
In sharing my work with you, it is my first and foremost desire to tell you, in my own words, but possibly your voice, about all that I see in this life that is perfectly imperfect, haphazardly beautiful, and also, given our combined voices, capable of being a little less broken, a little more unique.