Of My Labor

Of My Labor is a compilation of the poetry, plus quite a few full-color photo images (in addition to black & white images and drawings) - each image relating to poetry in this book. Of My Labor is chockfull of puns and double entendres; this along with the pictorial elements, serve to highlight the vibrant portraits of families, both human and animal, the nature of man and beast, mother nature - all portrayed with a skillful focus on love and hate, wedlock, birth, death, aging, while other poems, often rich in humor, center around food; there's, also, a quirky porcupine, snake, dog, birds of prey, big cats, monkeys, pigs, cows, and poetry inspired by poets Whitman, Yeats, Dickinson, Adrienne Rich, James Tate, Leonard Cohen, and others. Within this book, vividly presented, poems throb with human experience.