Monthly Archives: July 2021

Goodreads Giveaway

I am running an end-of-summer ebook giveaway on Goodreads for my new poetry collection, Outward Arrangements: Poems. The giveaway begins on Aug. 1 and ends on Aug. 30. You can enter here.

Outward Arrangements Cover

 

 

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Poetry Podcast Guest Appearance

I was the guest this week on the podcast Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio hosted by Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram, a poet and retired university professor. You can find the audio here.

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Pigeon on the Sidewalk

I saw a dead pigeon on the sidewalk while walking to work yesterday. I moved around it, heading along Fayette Street toward Salina. But I decided to turn around and come back to the scene and observe the dead bird.

Dead pigeon on the sidewalk. Photo by Francis DiClemente.

I also snapped a picture—my motivation being I wanted to capture an image of the lifeless form as a reminder to myself that my time on earth is limited, that death awaits me. We can’t escape mortality. In one way or another, we all become pigeons splayed on the sidewalk. And while it’s a sobering thought, it helps me to value the life I get to live today.

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