Current projects

I've started two new collections of poetry. The first entitled "In the space we leave behind" contains new and selected poems from the past few years. Many were constructed or started on my recent trips to Lincoln, Nebraska. For some reason, I feel comfortable there and the words just flow.
The second collection "Open Sky" will once again showcase not only nature poems, but also many photographs. If I can just get the formatting right.....it's a bear!
Also, I received news that my poem "Hummingbird Conversations" and a photograph will be featured August 9th on Nature Writing.
Here's a copy of that poem and the photo.

Hummingbird conversations 

Around the feeder ruby throated

hummingbirds swoop flit hover

dance and fight and I wish

I could hear their

wingbeat conversations.

What would they tell me?

Do they discuss the weather

the local nest situation

compare the quality of spider silk

swap migration route stories

or point out their favorite flowers?

Do they have a pecking order

who goes first and why?

Maybe they talk about politics

or health insurance

immigration or crop prices

probably not though.

How would it feel to be

in the tiny jeweled body

buzzing around

unable to be still

always moving

a heart beating

six hundred times a minute.

If I could feel that I’d know

what it feels like to fly across

the Gulf of Mexico

hover swoop dive and

taste the nectar of a

hundred thousand flowers.