July o7 2004 I loved Interim Sun. Your writing is such quality, when I look at my own afterwards, I feel like I'm just stringing words together. : )
July o6 2004 Interim Sun is a lovely poem. Lots of unusual imagery here. "Strobe"... "lens flare"... are you a photographer? Nice work.
July o4 2004 Interim Sun is incredible and the picture is awesome.
March 20 2004 Beach Finds is such an excellent work. I truly love this piece, for its beauty and its grace. A well-crafted work, to be sure. Thank you for sharing...:) March 20 2004 Beach Finds I always enjoy your visuals. —Rennie Lorca
March 20 2004 Beach Finds is lovely.
3 February 2003 As always, you inspire: The Ocean in Me. The first two lines really get the reader with imagery.
March 2 2003 Closer. I continue in awe of your imagery and your command of metaphor "you chose your words like a full-bodied red" wow!
July 12 2002 Sea Level was wonderful. I really enjoyed that piece...Well, I really enjoy reading all of your writing. *grin* Great writing! :)
— Ali.
June 8 2002 You write the purest poetry. I loved Small Hours.
May 23 2002 So-Called Confessional Writing ~ I agree wholeheartedly, and it's something I've said before. 'Do NOT assume that a poet or a writer is writing about their OWN experience, that is an immature reader's assumption.' And JEEZE! if we bought into THAT load of crap, the author of "American Psycho" should have been hunted down and locked up by the police the day that book was released off the press. [NB: the movie's got NOTHING on the book as far as psychotic behavior goes! The book was banned in Canada.) —T.J. Holland
May 23 2002
Yes, oh yes......your latest addition, Sill of a Window, is so great!! I feel breathless after reading. Kinda left me wanting to lie on my back in a field of new grass...and study the skies. Again, I say wow...you've really impressed me.
May 1 2002 A Slender Magnet
Comments, comments... I enjoyed your newest one immensely - "[S]lay the sacrificial lamb/on the third floor/breakroom of Microsoft". Magnifique mon amie. Enchante, enchante... You caputure that yuppie angst perfectly. I can almost smell the freshly-brewed Starbucks. In the meantime my own yuppie existence beckons. Love and scattered superlatives to you all... —Jimmy
February 28 2002 Afraid to Say He Loves Her rips at my heart - as do most your words.
February28 2002 Time-Released Wow ~ I went to your site [nice new pic, by the way] and read 'Time-released'. Wow. Mine was sugar-coated compared to yours. Well, well written. And the funny part? My cousin lived in Austin for about a year, not long ago. —Squeen February22 2002 ooh! You struck my chords again. :-) You're incredible... where did you learn to write like that!?
February12 2002 You are one of the most talented people! I loved 135 Coral Street. Nice touch!
February o1 2002 I really loved 135 Coral Street It is so very well done. The imagery was cleverly crafted. Very nice...
January o2 2002 The Last Thing in the World
brilliant....you have the best knack for vivid description and imagery.
January o2 2002 The Last Thing in the World was so well written...The imagery was very excellent. Great poem...=)
December 28 2001 Mid-winter is grogeous...you nailed winter perfectly. I liked the line "vapor of my own regrets." I think it has been pointed out previously today but it is evocatove, stunning.....worth repeating.
December o9 2001 Cameo Appearances -- 4th section ["evil barks like dogs in a car" et seq], very fresh image, engenders a whole host of vivd mental associations
December o9 2001 Cameo Appearances. Bravo. I am taken aback by your metaphors and references. How do you get italics? That was a great break in the stream of thought!!!I like your style
November 27 2001 Intermezzo is scrumptous. A single strand of time...very powerful imagery. You rock, girly-girl!!
November 17 2001 Fervour was absolutely stunning...*smile* Excellently done, as usual.
November 16 2001 Piano was lovely. The addition of the music really set the mood. I played many Chopin peices during my college years while working on my music degree, and the nocturnes are my favorites to this day! Thanks for putting two great artworks together! A Brazilian pianist, Guimar Novaes, recorded all the nocturnes and waltzes and I THINK they have been re-mastered and released on CD...her intepretation is stunning and just shimmers. You made my day.
Nobember 15 2001 I love Piano and the music adds so much!! Great choice of Chopin!!
November 14 2001 Andalusian Dancing ...your imagery, as always, is perfect....I almost feel like I am at the cantina.....
November 12 2001 Andalusian Dancing Fonda San Miquel's or Guerro's??? Or uh, where was that place where Laura Bush, oh, nevermind :-)
April 25 2001 Flight Options really conveys the power of the heart over mind. I liked your use of short choppy sentences...it gave a frantic feel to the whole piece.
August 21 2001 You brought me to tears. it was sooo beautiful! Demitasse [Aging in Nantucket] i looove it. oh wow. *gulp* *sob*]
:-) you're amazing! —Violet
August 21 2001 Demitasse [Nantucket] took my breath away, made my brain and heart dance. And it was over to soon, and I really really hated you for not writing more. Yes...i loved it.
—Galadrial
August 21 2001 Let me add my own gushing praise for Demitasse [Nantucket]. It's beautiful! You've successfully created an exquisite photograph using only words. A picture worth a thousand words? Only when those words are rough hewn and poorly choosen. Here your words paint a vignette more touching than any simple canvas. Emotional impact with subtly. Thanks.
—T.C.
August 20 2001 Your Demitasse [Aging in Nantucket] has such a bittersweet beauty!! I especially like the dust particles being added to give the feel of decay and age. With the flick of her wrist they are gone...just like with the mere passing of time, she will be gone... Very nice!
August 20 2001 Demitasse [Aging in Nantucket] is beautiful....there are so many places I could highlight, but the whole poem is so well written and the images and emotions so powerfully clear, that beautiful is the word I can best use....
July 9 2001 Your poems are beautiful! Thank you! Especially the
last one, Lovers and Other Mirages, with the painting of the lone boat by M. Kiles, excellent painting too! Keep it
up! Love your style of writing and use of words and metaphors. Totally awesome!
July 9 2001 Really loved Lovers and Other Mirages. The words held so much meaning and the picture was beautiful and complimented it so well. I've not really taken much note of your work before [I hope that doesn't sound as offensive as i think it could do] but I'm certainly diving in to your past works to read more!!! Great stuff!
3 June 2001 After reading Daybreak Moon a second time, I liked it even more. the image of glass skin gave me that feeling of the fragility of being alone...which was really interesting, since the poem implies complete security. loved it. — Delilah
May 12 2001 Tortoiseshell was absolutely encapsulating! I especially
love the line: I would guide you to me to places where all
borders disappear, I would cast my reel into a midnight
lake. I love the imagery that came to my mind. How sensual!
May 11 2001 Tortoiseshell Magnificent ! ! ! I especially liked the way that your writing allows the reader to wander through the imaginations of their mind.. seeing and feeling wherever it leads them.
July 19 2001 Two Syllables: rich, painterly, deeply evocative and very moving.
May 1 2001 A Slender Magnet Bravo, Bravo. This one is a feel it to your toes poem. Just incredible. I love Iris, I have lots of colors as well and the ones like that, that are as big as your face are so beautiful. I have them in a vase on the mantle right now. —B.K.
April 8 2001 I found the languid ending of Echo in the Atrium a very interesting word sculpture...
And the imagery of "replenish" was just wonderful.
—Kevin
March 21 2001 I enjoyed reading Bird of Prey. Wonderful imagery!
Keep it up! I'm getting my muse back after many months
of writers block. Thanks again!
— Elizabeth
March 20 2001 Bird of Prey ~ I continued to be impressed by the richness of the imagery in your writing.
'it never mattered
in-between the subdivisions
of existence'
March 20 2001 All your latest poems are just wonderful. I always love to see your name for new work, Bravo!
— B.K. March 19 2001 I really enjoyed To Have and To Hold...your writing is very beautiful. —Ali
March 18 2001 That last strophe of Windward is absolutely wonderful! Good job! —Toklas
March 17 2001 Beating to Windward...left we speechless. Wrapped up in the time and place, I was trasported by your words. Wonderful writing...
March 7 2001 Sandcrossings, great imagery, a sad, yet calming sense. I especially liked the line,'becoming young
as I grow old'. —Angel
February 14 2001 Dancing Down 6th Street was one of the few poems this year that I made room for on my hard drive. I loved it from the moment I first read it and have reread it many times. —Angel
February 9 2001 ~ Loved the line from Downstairs Porch:
"another dog across the lowland barks in fours"
February 7 2001 Watered Silk...beautiful writing...Bravo!
May 8 2001 He Said He Loves — nice mix of the concrete and abstract images to create 'one perfect moment'
feels like the scene was lifted out of 'reality' and became a sinuous moment in space...the words just float. Brava
May 8 2001 Sofa
— I love your stuff!! The concrete images you use make every line come alive...pictures just flow into my mind -- seeing every movement with a rhythmic liquidity which propels from your choice of words. Your works are always so full -- they force you into reading them over and over seeing some new metaphor or hearing assonance for the first time.
You really have a gift...people underestimate the need to use concrete language and forego all the abstractions...you drive the point home with your work.
Definitely artfully crafted poetry!
Thank you! —Natalia
May 20 2001 The Wind Whispers was so beautifully and well written....I love your work, you are one of my very favorites here...very well done.
May 19 2001 The Wind Whispers The art-poem combo is lovely. Very nice work.
June 10 2001 Ancient Remedies was wonderfull...I absolutly adore lapis lazuli!
June 15 2001 Intrinsic and 3 Days before Onset were both
very deep and mind pondering..
You writing style is so unique and fascinating.
I love it. Thanks ! ! !
June 20 2001 Intrinsic and 3 Days before Onset were a pleasure to read. I liked the imagery of the fish... — Delilah
July 30 2001 A Truce had such beautiful imagery. I thoroughly enjoyed the read.
August 6 2001 I have often wanted to comment on your work, as it is so well written, but I was under the impression that you are already an estabished author....
And me commenting on your works, would be like me putting my two cents on Edgar Allen Poe, or Emily Dickenson....
So in humble admiration, I can only say -
I love to read your stuff !!!
August 23 2001 I liked Angel Man... the beach is a great place to be in love, isn't it?
Made me miss Port A. very much.
December 26 2001 Mid-winter was lovely!! So graphic were your descriptions!! Nice comparison of the cold sky and the color of your loss.
February o4 2000 All Things Being...was sumptuous in it's tactile regard, and rich as a stained glass window in a french cathedral...thank you for it.
February 6 2000 I really liked Likerish. The language was so evocative. The lines "wings of trees / foliage draped like dark feathers above our heads," were especially good.
February 20 2000 I love Eachother. What a terrific image. words on wind becoming one. Really like this one.
March 2 2000 I'm struggling here--- Reunion ...dear lord, such amazing range of texture and emotion, tightly woven into such a tapestry....
Maybe I should give up my feeble attempts... I not only love it---I'm completely consumed with pea green jealousy and envy...
Not the best shade for an elf...
—Galadrial
April 5 2000 The storm in Reunion, I liked how you used one image to convey a lot of feeling
March 2 2000 ... in the sense that the texture of Reunion D'amour has a very high thread count... exsquisitely done...
May 11 2000 Baggage at Amtrak is lovely on many levels, not the least of which is the imagery it evokes. But wow, the POWER... beautiful... —Kevin
May 16 2000 Baggage at Amtrak just thrills me. I don't totally understand it, and I don't care. I love it. —HMS
May 18 2000 Singing to a Mermaid is pure magic to read ..great images...'touchable swells of sound'... very nice line.—Terry
June 3 2000 White Hot is. Your poetry is so rich in imagery. I am consumingly envious of it--all I do is words and thoughts, and I would kill to be a sensory writer like you. Can you bottle it and sell me some?
September 13 2000 Day 14 was so very eloquent and captured such a sense of place and time and being. I am in awe your talent.
September 18 2000 Xicara great imagery...intriguing!
September 19 2000 Xicara was beautiful...is xicara a brazilian hot pepper? or do you use the term to refer to a place? Answer:
Xicara was an elixer, a libation: circa 1519 or so [we call 'em Rum & Cokes or Colorado Bulldogs now] but anyway, they were only allowed to be sipped by the rulers of the Aztec society. The drink was served in a xicara, an elaborate gold goblet set [on a base covered with jaguar skin].
September 19 2000 The imagery of Choosing My Camisole is so vivid, I could even see the mist... Beautiful work. —Kevin
September 19 2000 Choosing My Camisole What a way with words...what a picture...*sigh* —Megs
November 7 2000 Take Out, You are a wonder woman with words
November 22 2000 Wow. Dreams @ a Pond We Call Ours. That was fantastic! My hat is off..my bald head bowing..
September 22 1999 The last three lines of Take Care are beautifully done. The "peeling back" of time through the sentiment often does reveal the words that appear on these webpages. Very nice.
And the metaphor of tying "thoughts to paper kites Angel Man is WONDERFUL... Thanks for inspiring me with that one. September 5 1999 Take Care very well written...every word resounded the numbness of a traumatized heart *sniff*. ANd, Bret, strange how reality can sneak up on ya! :-)
September 9 1999 Take Care I liked the image of a dead man's float. Know that feeling!
September 9 1999 Angel Man <SIGH>...Absolutely Beautiful! WOW WOW WOW! I LOVED IT!...'I tie my thoughts to paper kites...'WOW!
This one, I will keep!
October 13 1999 Angel Man 'I tie my thoughts to paper kites' what a deliciously youthful line.
October 30 1999 Summer Lair extremely well written and descriptive.
May 13 1999 Rain Kiss this one is incredible...so few words, but I have a whole image in my head, and it is such a romantic, longing, gentle one!!! :-)
May 5 1999 Reliving December and Bookstore I love your style! why are you not submitting anymore?? —Cosette
