The Excitable Gift comes chronologically before Cryptopedia. I’ve worked on it for a few years, but now it feels done. Hoping to get it published soon. Several publishers are reading it right now. Here’s a sample poem:

Boxed Sonnet

Details of dew-soaked, California grass, lawns brimming with privilege. Seasons blur. It’s Ash Wednesday everywhere. Roses pass like starstruck travelers, the fountain’s turns tattering. Gravel is combed, landscapes laddered. Homogenous century plants, stucco, and red roof tile. Halfway, a garden of everything. Worried yuccas, their disappointments, small bladed. Loneliness of date palms. Languorous, sure-footed lizards, hidden and displayed. Thirteen eucalypti yearning their lives towards the Pacific. A minatory wrinkle, water stains the Hollywood sign.