wild & verdant

Dear Reader,

When I moved to D.C., I felt that my inspiration withered away amidst the concrete and brick. Compared to my previous home out West, this felt stifling.

I challenged myself to look for nature around me, and the inspiration flowed back. I found that the nature that I once thought was gone, is really there all along.

As this book morphed, it became a book with concrete themes and titles for each poem, indicating where my inspiration came from. But that felt too constrained.

I rewrot...