Burn World (first appeared in Singing the Forge)

Punk Rock Song (first appeared in Smartish Pace)

Sharing the Wound (first appeared in The Potomac Review)

One Veteran’s Nebraska (first appeared in Main Street Rag)

Nine Winter Sonnets (from Seasons of Flowers and Dust, Goose River 2008)

Ghost Villa (appeared in Chest Journal, reprinted from Singing the Forge)

Nearness of the Beloved, a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe translated from the German (first published in Measure)

12 Poems from Poems Against War: A Journal of Poetry and Action (2003-2010) (G. H. Mosson, editor)

from Family Snapshot as a Poem in Time

First I had a vision, then I had a life.

The daffodils came in spring. Did they ever sing?

The winter was a time to hone. I am no longer alone.

Did the summer stretch out endlessly? Did the fall entangle me?