After Words Collection
Poetry in the After Words collection is directly influenced by reading published works by other poets, both living and dead. I am their student; they are my mentors; if they create texture by adding detail here and scraping other areas to the bone of simple noun, simple verb — I make every effort to do the same. An alpha list of my titles follow. Click here for an Index by Influence.
Can We Buy More Lives at the End?
(The) Poem of Plants
Schottische Miniatures in 2/4 Time
(6 poems: Suzanne Marie, Josephine Dehullu, Nightfall,
Death’s Lament, Church/Farm, and Memo)
To Nicholas Doiron Macaluso in the Pre-World of Beginning
In cases where a particular poem by a particular poet published in a particular book provided the springboard for my effort, I list all the particulars in a bracketed aside at the end. In other cases, I may have read a number of poems by a particular author and that wash of their style in general is the reason a poem of mine becomes what it becomes. I make no excuses.
