Dropping Sunrises in a Jar

Each poem in Dropping Sunrises in a Jar attempts to understand why birds appear happy at sunrise. Written from notes spanning over twenty years, the poems glimpse nature's inner workings of joy. In free verse, sonnets, and formal poems, sunrises from across the globe are depicted in a variety of awakening colors and sounds. Poems recount the morning's opera from locations like a sleeping car on a train going to Beijing to Prague with its construction noise. Other poems remain stateside with...