I would not have been a poet except that I have
been in love and alive in this mortal world, or
an essayist except that I have been bewildered and afraid, or a storyteller had I not heard
stories passing to me through the air, or a writer at all except I have been wakeful at night and
words have come to me out of their deep caves needing to be remembered. The following are
my most recent creations and inspirations in a moretraditional format.