I write poetry to make sense of what life gives us, the beautiful, the painful, the unfinished, and the unexpected. My poems often begin with something ordinary: water, a road, a table, a mountain, a memory. From there, I follow the image until it opens into something deeper about faith, identity, grief, hope, or belonging.

I’m drawn to the tensions we cannot easily resolve. Strength and surrender. Loss and gratitude. Mystery and meaning. Darkness and light.

Poetry gives me a way to stay with those tensions long enough to notice what they might be revealing and perhaps to discover that hope has been closer than we realize.