During the day, I work with a healthcare team that helps folks to rehabilitate. That position is challenging; so I appreciate the different sort of mental exercise that poetry allows. I enjoy that I have a vision, but the readers create their own interpretation.

I’m also part of another team – one that advocates for animals – the sentient beings among us who often have no voice. Locally, they face much suffering, which we are trying to end. I gratefully incorporate animals and nature into my poetry. This year’s project had me thinking of compass points, seasons, and the CNY waters that flow through them all…