Middle Slope: Poems

A collection of plainspoken contemporary nature poems teeming with pastoral paranoia and quiet beauty from a powerful emerging poetic voice.

It’s nice that the mountains kind of hold you in place.
I live neither in a valley nor on a peak but on the middle slope,
a place from which I want and want.
If I cry out, the sound might rise or it might fall.
It is the best place to be for storms, for it is not where lightning
strikes
nor where the rain collects and washes out the land.

Set primarily i...