Poems of staying

By What It Does is a book of poems about a human life shaped by the unseen labor of love.

The poems trace boyhood motion, adult vigilance, fatherhood fear, and the slow, intimate work of accompanying a parent toward death. Life is measured in ordinary units—rooms, hands, clocks, departures—through what must be done rather than what is said.

There...

Still Standing

Poems of Presence, Weight, and Love That Does Not Move

Some people do not get to step away.

There is work to do. People to care for. Responsibilities that remain whether we are ready for them or not.

Still Standing is a collection of poems about what it means to stay present in a life that rarely resolves neatly. These poems explore...