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The book is a travelogue, a collection of poems written on a veranda in Nicosia, Cyprus; on a bench in Central Park; in the Vatican Museum, driving west through the Poconos…it’s a personal atlas of the first quarter of the 21st century… #travel #fatherhood #marriage #highways #ghosts

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The poems collected in this chapbook were written over a period between my mother’s death and the height of the Covid pandemic that claimed so many lives… #hope #family #poetry To Order: www.finishinglinepress.com/product/the-...

If ever there was a gift to a poet, it is the chance to unearth the remains of a woman of her age, if not of her time... #poetry #archeology #pagan #Winchester #history Cover art: “Cathedral” by Jaymi Zents (c) 2023 To Order: www.finishinglinepress.com/product/sist... @islandclaylady