“Testimonial By Nature” was
published in September of 2004. Most of the poems were written in the two years since “Letters
to Sophie” was published. A few poems in this collection go farther back— “Didn’t
Happen” resulted from a story told to me by a neighbor many years ago; “Tuscany” and “Close
After Death” have been in my notebook since the early nineties.
Many of the more recent poems herein reflect the environment of Cortes Island B.C, at the
mouth of Desolation Sound, and several were written in the Santa Fe area of New Mexico.
The cover is a detail from “The Soignes Forest” by
Lodewijk de Vadder (1605-1655)
Two poems from this collection are available as broadside
art prints—“As If This” and “Charge.” See
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Charge 1
Migration Cafe 3
Jungle 4
In Tuscany 5
Country Song 6
Some Assembly 7
The Dilemma 8
Not Like Us 9
Elegy 11
Didn’t Happen 12
Call to Action 13
Out of Order 14
Close After Death 15
Prodigious 16
Ruined and Remade 17
Sanctuary 18
In The Sangre de Cristo 21
Kindling 22
On the Shore 24
Redesign 25
My Part 26
Roadie 27
Temple 28
What Happens 30
As If This 32
What Remained Still Singing 34
Request 36
Fulcrum 37
Emotional Intelligence 38
Whopper 39
Whole Time 40
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