About my poetry: perhaps because I was raised in the South, I care as much about how people say things as about what they say. I try to catch this realistic, perhaps regional tone in my poems. The other thing I notice about my work is that it is nourished by my dreams. And so there is a contradiction in most of my poems--though they are often set in a real and particular place, the place is changed, almost surrealistically, as in a dream, to a place which, though still recognizable as a particular place, is now universal, an Everywhere which I hope is accessible to everyone.
I've included "Men as Trees, Walking," "Pit Pony," and all the other poems from my second book, Where We've Been
