Lyric narratives and odes to past loves, previous selves, and young dreams. Chapbook published in 2025 by Meat for Tea. Cover image by Lauren Kindle. 

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Whether enacting a tea party with Emily Dickinson, Princess Diana, and Barbara Bush, or speaking in the voice of an old shoe not transformed into glass by Cinderella’s fairy godmother, these are imaginative, associative elegies. “Here On Earth,” an ode to once-desired occupations, recalls, “I wanted to be an astronaut, / to see an earthrise / from our rabbit-faced moon—” and closes with an ars poetica gesture: “anything whole / is not found, but made / with effort, against time.” In the final poem, a mother’s visitations transport the poet into the past, when “we both had / so much time / ahead of us.” From noticing how September returns roses after summer swelter, to telling time by the growth of jonquil, these poem-letters consider how we mark time—through the natural world, through relocations and relationships, through how and who we love, through the perspective gained by its passage.  

     — Rebecca Hart Olander, author of Uncertain Acrobats 

Accessible, lyric poems about travel, mythos, and love. Chapbook self-published in 2008. Cover image by Burns Maxey. 

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