I wrote the poems included in order to share what I felt and learned as a caretaker of the tiniest of premature babies. One thread has run through the whole of my experience in the NICU: the rise of the unheralded sympathy that is native to all things. What I expect to see in the intensive care setting is the most noble form of compassion, the love of mother for child, but what I witness is much more: the acts of kindness between strangers. At the center of this giving, I always find the too early born babe, the angel who brings with it the knowledge and revelation that initiates the rise of sympathy that is expressed as compassion.
Poetry at first glimpse reads foreign, but it is, in fact, the most familiar of things embedded as it is with the essence of its own culture. In this way, Poetry is the many-skilled tool that enables the intent of the words to reach the minds and hearts of many readers as the images within the poems shift their meaning in order to fit each context.
As far as introducing myself, as opposed to my work, I am a Neonatologist with a Masters Degree in Depth Psychology and Mythology who is also trained in commercial photography.