More than anything else, I’m a poet (and occasional writer of fiction). Here are some examples…
Fiction
The Day Daddy Died
It’s around 9 a.m. May 1, 1994. My stepmother, Kathie, has spent the night at Forsyth Memorial Hospital with my father, Larry, who will die late this afternoon…. Appears in The Dead Mule.
One Thing Leads to Another
Rocky Rigby tries to do the right thing. Appears in the Summer 2003 issue of Wilmington Blues.
Pictures of Venus
Love, loss, and the taste of gun oil. Appears in the Spring 2003 issue of storySouth.
Poetry
The Miles Between Here and Home
Chapbook, 20 poems. The Dead Mule, April 2003. Poems include “The Laying on of Hands,” “Quality of Life Concerns Among the Spiritually Dispossessed in the New Suburban South,” “The Broadman Hymnal,” “Starkeep II,” “What Happens to Old Men at Sundown,” “Kyrie,” “Gravity,” “Chardonnay,” “Old Florida, Given Back,” “The Miles Between Here and Home,” “Zen and the Art of Rainfall,” “Wyoming,” “Oracle,” “Old Ethan and the Death of Linear Thinking,” “Portrait of the Artist as a Rec League Soccer Player,” “Lauderdale, Low Tide,” “The Turning,” “Drift,” “Starkeep,” “The Effect of Wind Resistance on the Speed of Light,” and “Stormwatch.”
High Country Wireless
Shine it on/burn it down…
Covenant
Our legions are marching on the City of Rain…
X
…a spasm of youth sizing up the desperation of middle age… Appears in the March-April 2004 issue of Wilmington Blues.
Archipelago
My tribute to a friend who took his own life.
Interviews
Questions with Jim Booth
Two new novels pubbed in the span of a few months? When it rains, it pours…
