Without Lifting A Finger

My fourth book of poetry, The White Bird, is now available at Amazon. Thus far: only the Kindle eBook is available (the paperback is still in the oven but will be out soon). The eBook will be free to download from Friday, March 21 to Tuesday, March 25. Thanks to Jen Webb (Meniscus) for the blurb: She's described The White Bird to a T. Note: Just checked: The paperback version of The White Bird is now available at Amazon (3/19/2025). #rlswihart #thewhitebird #poetry #newbook #3/18/2025 #Amazon.com

Yes you do. You know how to say thank you. The boy sat staring at his plate. He seemed lost. The man was about to speak when he said: Dear people, thank you for all this food and stuff. We know that you saved it for yourself and if you were here we wouldnt eat it no matter how hungry we were and we’re sorry that you didnt get to eat it and we hope that you’re safe in heaven with God.

They stood on the far shore of a river and called to him. Tattered gods slouching in their rags across the waste. Trekking the dried floor of a mineral sea where it lay cracked and broken like a fallen plate. Paths of feral fire in the coagulate sands. The figures faded in the distance. He woke and lay in the dark.

He knew only that the child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke (The Road)

This compulsion for transformation is still with me today, as if the decay of everything in existence were simply the other half of the world, without which nothing could be imagined.