The 32 poems in The Mango follow the arc of the seasons and chart the themes that have been important in my inner life. 52 Haiku arrived more or less intact over the course of recent fall, winter and early spring months, as the island where I live transformed, and I observed how life’s changes affected me. The two dozen poems in Natural Selection are the ones that seemed to fit together best. I did not deliberately construct a sequence or an arc or an overall theme. These poems just seemed to call out to me for inclusion. Some were written twenty or thirty years ago, some a decade back, some in the past few months.

When Stuff Is Not Enough is a collection of poems tracing the zigzag path of a poet less concerned with any destination than with the artifacts he finds along the way. He is not a spiritual seeker but a finder of things that signify the spirit in the moment, any moment, every moment all at once. These are the notes of his polyphonic compositions. Rather than crowd out the reader’s mind with complexity, these open compositions invite the reader into and among the threads of meaning that splash gently like currents of water against stones. Take off your shoes. Get your mind wet. Before long, you’ll be swimming around in When Stuff Is Not Enough. Yeah, come on in. The water’s free and fine.