Poetry Reading Saturday Nov. 15, 2014

Please join me for a reading from my books Saturday November 15, 2014 from 2 to 4 pm. I will also be available to sign copies for those who have purchased them. Thank you, Griffin!

Location:

The Griffin The Griffin Bookshop and Coffee Bar

• 723 Caroline St
• Fredericksburg, Virginia 22401

http://www.griffinbookshop.com/

https://www.facebook.com/GriffinBookshop/info

I will read from Memories in Clay, Dreams of Wolves & Dark land, White Light.

Here is a poem from Memories:

Dust of the Mundane

Clouds dressed and undressed the sky all day,

shadows straying across fields and dirt roads.

I walked against the traffic of the clouds,

their streaming east down the dry highway,

echoed by shadows and by dust-arousing

cars. I walked their windblown dust.

Soon my feet itched where they met

the shoes because, sockless, I had come

to wear brown leggings of sweat-streaked dust.

As the clouds have abandoned all hope

of making their endless goal before

the night dissolves them into white stars,

so I have given up the desire of reaching

my home before dissolving into the road dust.

And so I walk easily against the traffic
of the clouds, dust, and cars, humming quietly.