Poetry
The following poems appear in the full-length collection “Hearthstone” (Two Rivers Press, 2006)
Drawing down
It’s the teasing out of stories
from blunt stock.
The refinement of endings.
Hephaistos
And wrought in them
the slow, arrested, liquid shapes
of the element that broke my fall.
Ammonite
Something beautiful about the coils
that you dislodged, their corrugations
clenched across millennia …