Veneer of Certainty (2006, I-Catching Books, paperback)

Confusion, it seems, is a pre-requisite for enlightenment.  After all, confusion is a loss of attachment to certainty, a state in between "this" and "that."  This collection of poems is a search for clarity by way of removing the presumptive veneers of certainty that layer our conditioned minds.  Enjoy the confusion.

Totem of Tautology (2007, I-Catching Books, paperback)

Tautology is traditionally associated with circular explanations and redundancy of articulation.  And yet tautology, as a phenomenon of expression, spontaneously presents itself in our attempts to verbalize the complexity of the simplicities that befuddle us.  Thus, tautology is both a confusing clarification and, paradoxically, a moment of clarity. 

This collection of poems, in its occasionally tautological manner, pursues a theme of polarity reversal of the “totem” of self-hood, from a sense of “I” to a sense of awe! 

It is my poetic hope, that in putting the dot not over the “I” but beneath it, you will appreciate the tautology of our self-exclamatory self-referencing.   Enjoy the clarity of confusion.