New! - My latest book, coming out soon!

A Book of Common Flowers  -  A collection of 40 common flowers comprising a watercolor image, botanical history, photo followed by a prose poem. The watercolor is a soft rendering of the flower on the first page of a 6-page section for each flower. The botanical history follows, exploring the Latin name, origin of the species, possible place in mythology or literature throughout the centuries. The literary references range from Longfellow, Shakespeare to more contemporary references as dive4rse as Tiny Time, Debbie Reynolds and Hellen Keller among others. The photo captures intricate beauty of the flower often resembling a painting. The final page is an irreverent, somethings erotic and humorous prose poem commentary on the flower. This is the author’s first venture into poetry, his previous work consisting of three novels and a book of short stories. He describes this new genre for him as finger painting with words, a form of stream-of-consciousness, without the restrictions of iambic pentameter and other structures of traditional poetry.