calcade

Science and poetry are enhanced by one another, so I come to the table with poems that are married to science. I am both a geologist and a poet at heart. I take my inspiration from Wordsworth, Dickinson and Pound (though I'm no fascist), among others, and I'm a believer in the narrative, metaphors, Imagism and the economy of words. 

The aesthetic here is the internalization of the happenings of the natural world: life as an ecological and physical study. It'd be selfish to say that these poems are steeped in personal experience, because these experiences are absolutely universal, yet I hope to give the reader parcels of insight that are cloaked in my interpretation. Each poem shall be a compartmentalized state of mind. 

I'm a firm disbeliever in the genre piece. A poem should not be read once and it should not be read silently. The reader should take good care and ruminate for at least a bit, just as I have for every word and most phonemes. I refuse to hold the reader's hand, especially when Google is so present at our fingertips. That being said, I am not an obscurist. I create every poem with intention and meaning. If there is a personal reference in the poem, I will take care to explain the reference. Unlike the genre piece, my poetry is not vapid and descriptive for the sake of pleasure. 

I am on this website for feedback. I'm tired of writing poetry for myself, so feel free to let me know your thoughts. Don't create in a vacuum.