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Images and Words
Each story a journey, each page a promise of hope, destiny, and the power of love...
or maybe not, you never know.
Free verse with a contemporary Christian worldview.
about Grace Period
Faith, imagination, and whimsy: this is poetry that takes us on a journey through creation in touch with the Creator, taking part in baking bread, celebrating new births, and walking in the woods. From repentance to restoral and the difficulties that lie between, these are poems that ultimately lead to joy and celebration.
Cudos for Grace Period
Book Fest Award, Bronze 2024
Selah Finalist for Inspirational Books 2025
Selah Bronze for Individual Poem 2025
The Nature of These Gifts
~ small poems for the journey
The fresh haiku in the Nature of These Gifts range from bright mornings in the garden to evenings lit only by the moon and stars. Quick to read and absorb, soothing to ponder, these poems readily open up the small hearts in nature as well as the larger views of what's outside our doors. The eighty poems in this small work are a palatable source of serenity for the times we live in now.
Contains grand-prize winning Haiku from Dreamer's Creative Writing Contest 2023
AWARDS
Haiku and short form poetry for lovers of nature and their fellow humans
ANTHOLOGIES
Many of my poems appear in themed anthologies, dealing with everything from the love of nature to surviving life traumas.
Quillkeeper's Press: Botany of Gaia, Grateful, Weaving the Light, Iseku, The Echoes We Make
Moonstone Press: Betrayed, Haiku 2023, 2024, 2025
Literary Revelations Press: Tranquility, Petals of Haiku
Flying Ketchup Press: Of Our Own Accord
Exolutus Press: Thrive
Kakalak Anthology of Poetry and Art: 2023
Midsummer Dream House Press: Summer Mix Tape
Concrete Wolf Press: Purr and Yowl
Willowdown Books: Looking In Looking Out
available from the publisher or on Amazon.
So many poems, so little time. There's something for everyone in these anthologies
New Releases Coming Soon...
from Quillkeeper's Press: The Echoes We Make, a Men's Appreciation Anthology containing "No Goodbye" and "Small Bouquets"
now available in on Amazon
from Quillkeeper's Press: The Rebellion of Quiet Things,
an anthology celebrating the overlooked, the hushed, and the hidden,
will contain "On Jarvis Creek", "September's High Places" and "For P.M."
Planned for release in June 2026
Available soon in Summer 2026, from The Closed Eye Open. "Flux and Redux" contains my poem "The End of Lizard Season"
Here's a peek at some of my flash fiction.
Originally published in On the Run magazine,
"Greetings from Mr. Greenbaum"
is a 1000-word haunted house story.
Click the link below to enjoy a visit with the Ashley family and their friend at 66 Steppingstone Lane.