My third book of poetry, REM Sunshine, is now released. Poems in this collection are reflective while unraveling their subject. They often explore underlying associations or, in the terms of Carl Jung, the shadow or archetypal side of perception. Some of the poems were triggered by sleep dreams and other poems arose from experiences or observations that seemed as unusual as dream in memory.
Dreams when recalled are like anecdotes; a person wants to understand the connections and reasons for their being encapsulated. Like the phenomenon of REM sleep, vivid experiences spring from strong images and unexpected correlations. Many of the poems in REM Sunshine are anecdotal or narrative. There are poems about startling turns in relationships, poems about storms, landscapes that surpass, poems remindful of mythology, and three poems about the shared shine of television.
Thirty-three of the fifty poems in this collection were published in literary journals. REM Sunshine is available in paperback and as a Kindle e-book.
