Leaving the Base Camp at Dawn is available for $15 (including shipping).
Drawing from Eastern and Western spiritual traditions, Leaving the Base Camp at Dawn explores how a long relationship of love is like a spiritual practice, a challenge to live in true care and compassion with those to whom we are closest. … Leaving the Base Camp at Dawn
A reading of my poem “Happiness” at the publication celebration of Miramar 8.
Thanks to Chris Buckley and Phil Taggart.
On May 19, I performed eight of my tone poems at a Blue Whale poetry reading. Here’s a video of one of them. I Whispered is about my father’s death. (Tone Poems are poems with original music).
Tone Poems are poetry/music pieces where words and original music work together as equals. Here are a two samples that set poems from my new book, Leaving the Base Camp at Dawn:
… Tone Poems: poems with original music
Here are two new tracks from Fur and Feathers — an album of instrumental music I hope to release soon. … New instrumental tracks
Richard Jarrette, author of Beso the Donkey and several other books of poetry, wrote this review. In it, he quotes Dan Gerber, whose most recent book of poetry, Particles: New and Selected Poems, was published in 2017 by Copper Canyon Press.
Two ragged lines, weary
flesh, inch
toward the altar, hands folded
in unaccustomed quiet.
With each step, we
chant, remembering
we are tree limbs swept
along the river’s sheen,
dust layers lying on
the closed window’s sill.
Tears well
from my wrinkled eyes.
I weep
for the grief concealed
in each person around me,
but also for you
and me, how we lose each other
in self-made misery,
unnecessary
as these dark ashes smeared
across our foreheads, there
for others to see, as if
they didn’t already know us
to be transient, broken, human.
“Ash Wednesday” is from the book Leaving the Base Camp at Dawn by Daniel Thomas.
To purchase or just learn more about the book, follow this link: Leaving the Base Camp at Dawn.
Deep Pockets is available for $16 (including shipping).
Traversing the distance between snowy Minnesota and lush Southern California, “Deep Pockets” is a collection of lyric and narrative poems that evoke the passing years and “the soul’s mystery in the material world.” … Deep Pockets – Winner of 2018 Catholic Press Award
Here are three poems from my book, Deep Pockets, published by Saint Julian Press in 2018. Thanks to Ron Starbuck.
In Robert Bly’s introduction to his translations of the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, he writes:
One of the most beautiful qualities in [these] poems is the space we feel in them. … Tomas Tranströmer
Daniel Thomas 