A poem of mine appears in the Spring, 2024 issue of Slant. Click on the following link to read my poem titled "With No Life Preserver Within Reach."
My parents, by the way, moved to Northern Ireland, my mother's home, when my father retired after spending thirty years in the U.S. Navy.
I recently visited the Ernie Miller Nature Center, which is located on the edge of the Kansas City metro area. It's a place that I hope to visit again soon, despite being able to hear the city traffic in the distance. The picture appearing below appeals to me because the dead tree in the foreground seems to resemble a dragon or an alien creature of some kind. It helps to enlarge the picture by clicking on it.
A few pictures of spring along the Missouri River appear below. I missed getting more pictures of the pear trees when they were in bloom. After my fall last autumn, something that I described in a previous post, I had not started to take pictures again until recently.
A recent poem of mine appears in Stone Poetry Journal. Use the following link to read my poem, which is titled "Forgetting Everything But Regrets." It took a little while before this poem of mine found a home.
The act of making peanut butter, which is something that appears in the poem, is described in an earlier blog post of mine.
Poems can be found in everyday activities. That discovery is something that I wish I knew when I was much younger. It would have been so much easier to come up with poems for those poetry workshops that I enrolled in as an undergraduate and graduate student if I had examined my everyday activities more closely.