Somewhere There's a Horse

In Somewhere There's a Horse, reviews have referenced the author's realization of mortality and aging. And it is true that a number of poems in this collection bear the theme of winter poems in the seasons of life, but there is also humor here like in "Oklahoma Accents." There is a nostalgic fondness for a life well lived in "Consecration." These are real poems, honest poems, poems intended to move and affect the reader with feelings of the commonality of all beings - grief, joy, loss, remembrance. These poems may have been born in the plains and hills of Oklahoma, but they have the strength to reach cross rivers, even oceans and speak to the universal spirit of all beings. Read more