It was a summer day in 2006. I didn’t mark the calendar. Early July, maybe. Decided to take my coffee on the front porch that faced East. About 7. Early dawn. Suddenly a small group ( at least three ) of fireflies fluttered around the corner of the porch. As

ALTARPIECES — Structures of Poetry and Spiritual Thinking  —  Basically a  collection of poems over my life span to that point.(Not all: some lost.) A theory of poetry ( inclusive of the poet’s personal world) and evidences of structured ( as in built-crafted) spirituality are interwoven as essays. Surviving a

SYMPATHIES — The Aoide Protocol — This is a song book: hearing-singing the music, crafting it in voice-performance, structuring it in memory so it’s not forgot. Thus, the AOIDE PROTOCOL. — Aoide-Melete-Mneme. This is a book about magic: the magic  — of things coming into themselves by belonging together–OTCITBYBELTER. “Sympathies”

AUGURIES –Augural Recrescendoes of Covenantal Kairos — The tonal-theme of all the melodies here is the ANSWeR — A New Spirituality We Are.   The old spiritualities come from old visions. We are we are breathers, creatures of BREATH: respiration-aspiration-inspiration fuel our essence/existence. AROCKAKCORA is the subtitle as a palindrome. Palindromes

THE TRILOGY – This is self-published with iUniverse. I’ve designed all the covers and as much as possible the interior pages. It has been a struggle to have my interiors followed to my satisfaction — particularly in the last book AUGURIES. The content is all there and OK, but some