Writing

More Than a Handful is about revisiting childhood and seeing things both as a child and as an adult.

It’s all how you juggle the chaos, the strife of a circus life.

Let’s start by asking you to explain what the term “ekphrastic” means to you. Ekphrasis originally had a specific

I usually start with a single haunting image written at the top of a page.

Persephone peers out without blinking.

Backward, echoing, mirroring It is provocative to postulate

He’s seen enough of his mistress preening.

Clouds of blue and yellow remind us of our home.

As odd as this might sound, I think I was a “writer” from my very earliest childhood.

And, then at some point, I said we should only do rejects-like dumpster diving for poetry.

Dimensions but not directions divined.

Klee’s kids skin their knees and cavort under blue-sheeted shrouds.