"I enjoyed The Year of Wood very much."

--Don Wentworth, Lilliput Review

"Devoured in one sitting and enjoyed very much…a very nice collection."

--James Michael Robbins, Sulphur River Literary Review

Day of the Dead

I've made my peace
with innocence,
that candy skull
so easily broken--

and after it,
with the dreams of the dead
burning down to the wick
in a red glass jar--
but not with pain.

What means virgin
what means corpse
what means this bell

ringing hollowly
between my ribs
between my thighs?