What can a poet do to make any difference in a pandemic? Four of my kindle books free until Friday April 17 – Here’s sample from Dark Land, White Light
A collection of my early poetry free on Kindle until April 17 along with 3 other books; Dark Land, White Light Here’s a sample: “Death of a Mountainclimber” I feel the oldness finalize within me, white as glass chip ice, and I follow the bone track home. I am going now. High, a last climb, a last series of handgrasps, a last ringing of steel, a last living above the clouds; I am going now. The steeple cliffs sing silently, reaching (as I’ve always done) higher, pointing stone Gothic intonations to lead my eyes. Before, when I reached the top, the world continued below, but I had grappled beyond it. In the past, when I have found my soul, it was alone on a peak. Now I am going, a mourner and a celebrant both. I pass the last living—the tree line. The brown rock and the blueburning glacial snow split the world off from the peaks. I pass the world to the peak. Here, alone, I’ll find my soul, the soul that was never soft-touched but often knew the love of ice and...