Paradise and Achievement: A Week in Acadia
I climbed summits and traversed ocean waters.
Poetry
Escape Second Death: A Poem
This poem is published in the poetry anthology, Its Not Easy by Poets’ Choice. This is my first published piece.
I am Published!
I am excited to finally be able to answer the dreaded question, “Are you actually published?” with a, “Yes!”
Miniver Cheevy, by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Miniver Cheevy, born too late, Scratched his head and kept on thinking;
Miniver coughed, and called it fate, And kept on drinking.
The Miraculous Rise of Phillis Wheatley
Wheatley achieved the miraculous, the impossible, the unthought of: she a black-African-born-woman did not peel at the edges of prejudice, she slashed it, and all were forced to recognize her gift and confront their misplaced assumptions on the place of women and slavery.
I Write The Words I Cannot Pray: A Poem
I write the words I cannot pray, too false for Heaven, too honest for Hell, telling the truth by lying well.