In 1993, while writing a poem for a young lady on a computer at the Student Employment Office at Laney College, the director picked up my poem and checked it out and said, You have to get this published.
An eclectic collection of the lyrical, the exalted, and the profane, WOOD FROM ASH examines in verse the constructs of imagination and memory, and it poses to the reader a question that is central to some of the authors most difficult experiences: What, other than belief, distinguishes the one from the other?
Originally written (1999) as a counterpoint to Book I: Aflame (1998), Falling Leaves Observation explores autumn landscapes of death, harvest, renewal, rebirth, and the human condition.