Or will be in July 2016. My book, FLOUR, WATER, SALT was just accepted by FutureCycle Press. July next year is the date. This is a book of poems connected with food, that elemental of family, culture, sex and sensuality, tradition, connection between friends, and life itself. And hurray for FutureCycle. They published my first book, Fugitive Pigments http://www.amazon.com/Fugitive-Pigmen... FC is great to work with, and their books are always handsome. I’m getting excited already.
Here’s a sample poem, previously published in North American Review.
Ode to the Toothpick
Not really tan, more like ecru, fawn, tawny beige, presented unshellacked and oddly
mismatched in a lidded box. Shavings of thin veneer stamped in clean tapered Bauhaus lines.
Singly they have no aroma, but place your nose to the small blue cardboard casket
and breathe the birch woods of Maine, white-skinned, under a sky of Botticelli blue.
Here’s a sample poem, previously published in North American Review.
Ode to the Toothpick
Not really tan, more like ecru,
fawn, tawny beige, presented
unshellacked and oddly
mismatched in a lidded box.
Shavings of thin veneer stamped
in clean tapered Bauhaus lines.
Singly they have no aroma,
but place your nose
to the small blue cardboard casket
and breathe the birch woods of Maine,
white-skinned, under a sky
of Botticelli blue.