Loved the book so much!!! Read it cover to cover last night.  I especially enjoyed the paired pieces ("untitled" and "untitled ii" and "purgatory" and "purgatory ii") and the piece entitled "john".  I was particularly drawn to this piece because there is someone special in my life named john.  we've experienced "times of fragrant blossoms" and "lash-swept tears", so this piece really spoke to me and touched me in quite a profound way. 

 

Your poetry is tight, vivid and profound.  It has the power to cut to the core of the reader so that the reader can actually FEEL the words, rather than merely READ them.  

 

Beautiful stuff.  It is a book I shall treasure and return to, time and time again.

 

Many thanks, again. Jill from NJ  5/27/11