Why ‘Poemfish’?

Poemfish is the way we speak when we are dreaming, the words that we invent to hold hope. I discovered Susan Wooldridge’s book Poemcrazy the same year that I began to write poetry in earnest. Now, as my poems are making their way out into the world, this web site is both a tribute to the poemcrazy people of this world, and a commitment to myself, to keep swimming.

Here is a quote from Susan’s poem:

And here is a little poemfish poem of my own:

swim swim little poem
silver among the murky waters
of every ordinary day
you gleam and wink
in the light between my hands.
too fast for me to hold you
for long, when you are gone
it smells like the first rain
after a long, dry summer,
all the world washed awake
and smiling