: About Me

I am a child and adolescent psychiatrist working in Albuquerque New Mexico where I am a professor of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico. I am married and have two children, a girl age 7 and a boy age 10. My son has cerebral palsy and is confined to a wheelchair. I received both my undergraduate and MD degrees at the University of Oklahoma and completed residency training at the University of New Mexico.

I recently began writing poetry regularly (in November of 2007). I have no formal literary training but do enjoy writing. I am a member of the Southwest Writer's Association. The principal themes that I explore in my work include the nature of the self, the complexities of subjectivity and intersubjectivity, and coming to terms with the finitude of life.

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Autumn

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Falling an early walk in mid-November wears a mourning face. cotton-woods half bare. their skeletal fingers scratch the gray of a solemn sky a scythe wind cuts marrow deep and trees shed leaves like dry brown tears on bowed heads of sallow grass. the crow linger in long shadows. November is hard, the tough rind of fall. harder still this year of empty store fronts and creeping poverty. in a vacant lot, I raise a leaf, a cracked parchment curled tight against the cold and wonder: did it loose all hopebefore it finally let go?

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