A wedding is earth and water and a species of irreducible light and the flat belly of a harbor and a mango about to ripen and fall into gravity's caress and the waves subsiding and resuming their concerto in a minor key and the rush hour canceled by the stun of auspicious beginnings.

The Blaze of the Poui: Poems (ed. University of Georgia Press, 2003) - ISBN: 9780820325156