… is in part the inability to let things be. It was time to make this piece from 2020, called Stanchion, “exhibitable”. My bricolage settings for poems tend to defy convention and complicate my intention to submit pieces to juried art shows, which can have particular rules. And now I have a poetry reading coming up September 21, the first since my chapbook launch in 2021, and am searching my recent works for poems to include, tweaking and ordering them so that they are thematically cohesive. Perhaps it is not surprising that one of the emerging themes in my recent work is war and peace, war amongst ourselves, war with the other than human world, the kind of fed-up-ness that attends the times we live in, but also the peace to be found in the contemplation of nature.