JUST RELEASED FROM BLACK SUNFLOWERS PRESS!

Listen to a reading of “My animal gratitude” from the book!

Read “If time is a measure for all human experience” published in the wonderful journal La Piccioletta Barca.

Read “Poem in search of an exit” at River Heron Review.

I wrote these poems following the death of my best friend during Covid lockdown where those two catastrophes intertwined. We all became captives in a sense, though hers was a function of not only the pandemic, but also terminal illness. I hope the poems express both the suffocation of that period, as well as a reverence for life fully lived, which she had, and which those experiences placed into new perspective for me.

Graceful and beguiling, Elegies of Herons distills hope from nature in Wetzel's luminous poetics of tristezza.

Meanwhile, the sun strokes the threads of the web

as if love and this, the start
of a long journey. I blow

softly on the web, watch the tiny things
tumble, watch them fly.

            From “Dandelions” published in SWIMM