One year, I noticed how many allusions to birds were in some of my poems so I gathered them and continued on that theme to complete a book. That book, Cues From an Aviary, is now published. I've been an avid walker and hiker and also, was a window birdwatcher. That is why the first section of the book is called “Cues.”
Birds are of such variety in appearance and in habits that for me, they became a panorama like people. The cues function as metaphors in poems. My experiences were retained as a collection of birds, an aviary, and if I saw a bird in a tree, it caught my attention in the way that a new bloom would in the spring. In other poems, birds were a theme. The second section of the book “Choreographed” contains poems that set off people personalities with birds and nature, those traits that are embedded. The third section “An Aviary” focuses more on bird life.
Since discovering that I was watching birds more than I realized, I became more of a birder, combining that with my walking exercise on the many trails in my vicinity.
Cues From an Aviary is published in paperback and as a Kindle book. Thirty-one of the forty-four poems in the volume have been published in literary journals such as Amarillo Review, Cider Press Review, Frigg, The Courtship of the Winds, The Midwest Quarterly, The South Dakota Review. “Wren Real Estate” was nominated by The King's English for a Pushcart.
