Disquiet

Disquiet is a collection of poems that utilizes natural phenomena a bright beach, a fallen tree limb, the weight of gravity to evoke and reflect upon memory and human experience. The poems are structurally innovative, each shaped around a central axis as they trace the speaker s growth from childhood to adulthood. Acute observations resonate throughout the book as its focus shifts from the natural world to the world of the made the grocery cart or pie-case or microscope to the world of visual art, and then back. The poems are subtly braided together in a way reminiscent of the invisible bonds that unite snowflakes or cells.