Where I grew up, in rural Indiana, there is a very large Benedictine monastary, an archabbey, in fact. One of the things they produce on the land there is wine, which is used sacramentally, as well as being sold as part of the abbey's self-sustaining economy.

A poem for Good Friday.

A poem for social distancing.

I was living in Switzerland on September 11, 2001. The night of the attacks on the World Trade Center, I walked the streets of my little neighborhood in a town called Sorengo. After my walk, I composed this poem.

One of my attempts at the sonnet form. As far as I'm concerned, poetry doesn't get more perfect than the sonnet. It's the perfect blend of displine and abandon. This poem is my imagining of a love scene that might take place inside a Van Gogh painting

A sonnet about the immutability of true love.