Find Praise for January

The stark beauty of the winter tree is a strong metaphor for this collection of contemporary poems that explores the themes of aging, divorce, cancer, and loss with raw honesty; yet also celebrates the elegance and healing we find in the natural world.

I

Why

Thoughts after Late Life Divorce

Obsidian

Another New York Love Story

Friday Night

To a Cottonwood

At Timberline

Broken

Out of the Mouth

Blind Fiddler

Every Nail, Wire and Pipe

Soft and Lovely

After the Third Storm

II

January Man

The Return

The Day I Forgot It Was My Birthday

Winter Nights

Winter Words

Kansas Retrospective

January Poem

We Didn't Die Together

Love Itself

January Unspools

The Last of Your Kind

To the January Man

Sing Praise to January

III

Waiting for Slow

Built-in Obsolescence

In the E.R. at Rose Hospital

Saying Goodbye to Louis

A Day in the Life of a Cancer Patient

Adhesions

Arachne

Preparing to Lead on The Way of Imagination

Point of View, 9/11

Trust

To My Ear

In Praise of Nothing

Artifice

Poetry

Poem for the Body

Paradelle: A 21st Century Love Poem

Truth Claims, or What You Won't Find in Church

Magi, Then and Now

Prayer

Dandelion

To Answer Your Question

Proclamation