This section is where I will post my poetry.

Although my poems may be amateurish and may never hold any literary value, their value lies in the documentation they provide of my life, my inner struggles, experiences, my psychology and what truly lay in my heart of hearts. For me, however, their greatest value lies in the process I went through in writing each and every one, even ones I cringe at when I read (which I actually never read).

Debris in Life’s Wake is a collection of primarily depression poems that I wrote, with a spattering of dreamed-love poems, unrequited love and other poem subjects, starting from 1988, the year I left the U.S. for a year abroad in Sweden, during which I became suicidal and remained for the most part suicidal up until 2009. Upon leaving the U.S. in 1988, I would not return to live in the U.S. again until spring, 2008 to begin the process of healing my suicidal depression.

Emerging from the Debris: The second collection is to be a collection of poems I began writing last October, as a new era of my life began. Most of these poems are poems of hope, or at least free of the darkness of the depressed era of my life.