Poems

Western Trillium (Trillium ovatum)

— a perennial herb with 3 triangular oval leaves, blooms for about 3 weeks in Pacific Northwest forests, showing off its 3 large white petals.

Selected Published Poems

Aji magazine: “If People Were All Trees,”
“Moth on the Sunshine Coast, BC”
The Avocet: “Beyond Wings”
Cirque: “Three-Legged Coyote (Canis latrans)”
Clackamas Literary Review: “The Picnic”
Latitude on 42nd, Empirical Magazine: “Conference of the Crows,”
“Trillium,” “Winter Walk in Forest Park”
Parks and Points, Wayfinding: “Balsamroot in the Columbia Basin,”
“I Come to Talk with the Bristlecone Pines (Pinus longaeva),”
“Caldera Collage” (originally published as “Postcard from Crater Lake”)
The Poeming Pigeon: “The Weaver Who Dyes”
Soul-Lit: “Statue of St. Francis in the Garden,”
“The Priest on the Bus”
Willawaw Journal: “Among Lava Flows,”
“Wapato Island”
Windfall: “High Tide Line / Unresolved”

Multnomah Art Center poetry post selection: “Listen to Whoever Flies or Sings”