Lexicon of the Body

The poems in Lexicon of the Body are grounded in the physical experiences of intimacy and separation, perpetual change and transformation. Sometimes quiet, sometimes fierce and always direct, these poems dive into the deep end of the ordinary joys and the big questions of a human life lived through the body and the senses.

In these poems relationships of all kinds come together, unfold, and fall apart. Children and lovers, parents and spouses, as well as pets, gardens, and a love for the ear...