A POEM FROM MY CHAPBOOK, RECALIBRATIONS (FINISHING LINE PRESS).

This collection of poems explores themes of love, grief and one family coming to terms with a
wife and mother’s cancer.

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(The following is an example of a haibun poem)

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SAND WASH BASIN HMA

There’s sailor’s blood in your veins and that’s always an excuse for adventure. We headed west
because sailors seek wind and came to rest on the shores of a pastel sagebrush sea. Moving with
a sandy current, we floated from one summit to the next. Two love birds, abraded by rocky
reefs, desiring to be albatross.

 

crows nest sun
warming the backs of stallions
racing to be first