A Conversation about Poetry and Silence

While watching the yellow leaves and red leaves fall in my backyard in New Mexico USA, I had the opportunity to talk with a good friend who lives on the other side of the world in Cromwall, United Kingdom, about poetry and silence. I met Andō through Facebook. I would scroll my feed while I was recovering from surgery back in 2018. There would be this quiet pause on my feed. It was Andō’s poetry. It kept happening over and over for months. Finally she offered a class called Small Silences. I decided to take the class. Well, a couple years of learning from Andō and friendship led to the first publication of my poems and poetic narrative The Deepest Peace (Parallax Press). The rest is all history.