The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems

For me, many of the poems in this collection read nearly as flash fiction (in some cases, with line breaks--very prose-ish) or short scenes, even creative nonfiction. In most cases, had I been hearing the poems, I'm not sure I would have realized it was written as poetry. In most cases, the poems here were amusing, but as a whole, there wasn't enough here to hold me into the collection or make me feel anything for many of the situations and poems. Simply, I found it all an amusing diversion, but none of the poems here would bring me back for a second read, or draw me to pass them on.

Clearly written meditations on moments plucked from the seemingly mundane times of life. Poems of life, death, grief, violence, the author’s family and the Holy Family.