Poetry

My first publications were poetry:

GALLERY, published by Dubuque Area Writers Guild, Dubuque Fine Arts Society- 1990, 1995, 1997
LYRICAL IOWA, published by Iowa Poetry Association- 1989, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1997,1998 1999, 2006, 2007
A SONG OF MYSELF, a CSS publication— 1987
AGAINST THE GRAIN, a CSS publication- 1988
DUBUQUE INTERNAL MEDICINE NEWSLETTER– 1990
GERTRUDE DOLE MEMORIAL AWARD, Massachusetts State Poetry Society, Inc.— 2008
FROM THEN …TILL NOW, Poetry Press- 1990
THROUGH A POET’S EYE: The Cambridge Collection – 1988
AMERICAN POETRY SHOWCASE: Poetry International Publishing- 1988

THIS MONTH’S TASTE:

A Summer’s Woodland Watch

Factories of chlorophyll photosynthesize,
Working the leafless apple
Blossoming into fruit,
As beneficent bees
Red-ripen strawberries.

While brown thrashers celebrate in rugged hills,
And Whippoorwills dusk-call
From three-twig nests beneath the hemlocks,
Infant leaves stretch into
Their woodland coat.
Sassafras mittens and cottonwood hearts,
Scalloped oaks and sawtooth elm,
Miraculous unbroken green,
Turn the seasonal calendar.

And new buds,
Gum and scale protected,
Lie waiting the turning solstice,
For Spring.