• The Robin’s Reflection

    62 words

    The robin flies into the window because glass does not shine like water; and there is another bird there, flat and strange and shimmering. This is the robin’s land of damp creeksides and there’s the nest among the maple towers, so he sings a song, beautiful and weaved of trills, and the sun moves along with his notes, until at…

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  • Spring Is An Ever-Moving Process

    236 words

    We live among constant change, and we only notice it when we’ve been away. After two weeks abroad, I return home to find that the first crescents of spring have, well—blossomed. The osoberry, the first bush to sleep and to awake, is draped in full regalia. The creekside is speckled through with waterleaf, one of…

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  • My Second Novel

    120 words

    Two weeks from now, on March 15th, my second novel will officially be released. LISTEN focuses on the confluence between music and nature. It’s a story about love: the love between two young people, and the love they discover for the natual world. Above all, this is a story about reconnecting with the earth. The…

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  • A Box Full of Goodness

    103 words

    Guess what arrived in the mail last night? Advance copies of my second novel, Listen! No matter how many books I might publish in my lifetime, I don’t think I’ll ever get used to this feeling. My words, my story, my characters, all brought into tangible existence! It finally feels real. I’m a published author? A two-time published…

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