These Bones; Long & Short

The poems contained within These Bones; Long & Short were written a few years after the sudden passing of my father. His death was abrupt and it took some time to sink in and for the grief to express itself fully through me. At the same time, my grandmother was suffering the final, horrible stages of dementia. She was one of my most favorite people in the world and this disease had robbed our family of her. Memories of she and my father are scattered throughout the pages of this book in one form or another, accompanied by strange tales, prose, haiku and poems that gaze deeply back into their own reflections cast by the pool of life itself.