Follow This Creek

I stand beneath the rail bridge,
where the sunlight bends through
the cracks between the evenly
spaced ties; cold water moves
around my feet, around some odd
parcel of dry land in the stream bed.

I ventured here seeking
relics from the abandoned
rails; trailing history by gathering
pieces of iron to remind
myself of events I never
witnessed.

And sometimes after a fresh rain
the scent of tar combines
with the drum of bike wheel
against wood and I find
myself listening in
silence for the whistle.



Follow This Creek,
a 28 page chapbook of poems,
is available now from Foothills Publishing.

- $7.00



My work has also been featured in:
The Magpie's Nest, Almia, Offerings, Something Else, Down in the Dirt, Westward Quarterly, The Poet's Art, Oak, Poetic Hours, Speedpoets, Write On!! Poetry Magazette, Poetry of the People, Black Book Press, Waterways, Ceremony Collected (anthology), Pregnant Moon Review, The Poet's Haven, Illogical Muse.