Piccolo Spoleto-Sundown Poetry Series

Before my reading at the Sundown Poetry Series at Piccolo Spoleto, I roamed the streets of Charleston contemplating moments of joy.  The weather was ominous and dark clouds swept into the city and it was if the day was telling me that this too was joy. For lives are weather patterns. It started to rain, … Read more

Coiled Silence

The flash fiction piece, “Coiled Silence” was published in Fall Lines Volume II in 2015. For a period of our lives, Terrye and I shared a duplex with her sister, Deborah, in West Columbia. This story derives from those years spent in WECO. They were good years but also ones with plenty of heartbreak. Deborah … Read more

Marsh Deer

Marsh Deer appears as the last poem in the first section in my book of poetry, “Theologies of Terrain.” My brother Pat did see an early version of this effort on July 29, 2015. The first failed version began, “On barrier islands, the marsh deer heed the whisperings of currents.” I credit a workshop at … Read more