My poem “Carl and Carla,” about the cardinal couple who winter over in the burning bush outside my dining room window, was published in The Weekly Avocet (April 5, 2026, #696). The Avocet, a poetry nature journal, emails a weekly PDF and prints four seasonal issues a year. The poem, an intersection of my writing and end-of-life doula work, ponders leaving “advanced care directives” not only for ourselves, but also “nature directives” for the plants and animals in our environment. Read more in POEMS.
Northern Cardinals, non-migratory songbirds, are monogamous
Why writers write: “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.” – Albert Camus
