State Poet Laureate Tod Marshall kindly chose one of the poems from my manuscript the practice of devotion for inclusion in WA129, an anthology of award-winning Washington State writers and poets. The anthology is now available from Sage Hill Press.
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when we first met
you opened me like a letter
who can speak of what the peony gives out
when it’s bowed down to the ground with rain