It Takes Practice Not To Die

A collection of lyric and narrative poems that meditates on mortality, memory, and the labor of poetic making. Voices move between intimate diary entries, imagined interviews, parable-like scenes, and landscape studies, using domestic, agricultural, and seafaring imagery to probe loss, aging, and moral choice. Recurring motifs—breath, seeds, fog, ruins, and striving—tie reflections on time, faith, and endurance to precise sensory detail. The tone shifts from plaintive to ironic to resolute, and formal variety supports sustained attention to ordinary objects and moments as sites of ethical and imaginative reckoning.