Check out the latest 5-star review of Hope Lies in Less, in which Julie Gardner says …

“The prose reads like poetry, lyrics to a new song you somehow know by heart. The common themes pull you along, like dark threads unraveling, as the author weaves a tapestry of emotion that is both painful, but also full of hope. We feel, in the end, less alone for their universality.”

Hope Lies in Less.  Me … in words.  Available now.

And here … in other words …

amidst inattention
moss
in shades of green and hunger
softens transitions
erodes boundaries
slips within silence
whispers damp endearments
against surrender
lush

sits a bench
glossy wooden solecism
unfledged memorial
to final flight

sits no one
shoulder blades to inlay
photographic proof
he smiled once
wore a blue sweater
let his hands fall

sits memory
untethered
ribboned balloons
tied to slats
celebration of nothing’s
listless arrival

amidst inattention

murmurations
of life and death
against surrender
lush