My new poetry book: "Our Dreams...an Endless Summer" is now available to order on Lulu.com bookstore. You can find the link on my Link page.

Also check out the new poem released

Fields of Butterflies
(from Our Dreams...an Endless Summer)
-October 6, 2017


Sometimes you’ll have to give in
to the fact that you’re a butterfly
in the wind. And no matter how hard
you may flutter your wings, you can’t fly
through a hurricane.

You’ll have to accept that there’re forces
and situations greater than you. At times
it’s best to take a step aside and wait out
the thrashing wind and flying debris. Find
some clearing of space and balancing
of your soul and mind.

I’m not saying to not attempt to fight
and not attempt to achieve your goals, but forcing
a will may at times cause more harm than any good.
Time flows continuously like rivers rushing
through rugged canyons. Our youthfulness will wrinkle too,
aging like the stars at night, but while we’re still in this universe
we’ll continue to burn bright.

Our wings may be delicate
and at times we may be at the mercy
of heavy winds and mighty turbulence, and we give in
to these phenomena, fate can often be quite cruel.
But don’t forget these mighty surges
will eventually subdue.

The air and breath will soften, your body
and mind may be bruised and broken,
but your life will be reawakened. Sorrow
like happiness will come and go like seasons
and sometimes the winters may last
through May, but the spring will
eventually blossom, teeming
with fields of elegant butterflies.

This is the list of poems that will be in my new book, "Our Dreams...an Endless Summer." 40 total poems, including "Seasons" and "Memories" that originally appeared on my first book "Oblivion" as well as "This Fleeting Moment" a poem, which has been on this site for many years. With 37 practically brand new poems including the recently premiered "Letters in the Rain."

40 poems in 4 parts

I

- Sway
- Sincerely with Love from TRAPPIST-1e
- Somewhere Between Dreaming & Living
- Daybreak Falling
- The Orchestral Tides
- Currents
- Kaleidoscope of Poetry
- Letters in the Rain
- Dance like Skeletons
- A Calamity of Gravity
- Seasons

II

- Dragon Breath, Diamond Dust
- Conjured
- Chasing the Morning's Dawn
- Dignify & Cold
- Blue & Gold Motifs
- Unwoven
- A Transient Passing
- Fields of Butterflies
- A Summer Memory
- The Mourning Dove
- This Fleeting Moment

III

- A Frozen Commute
- Arguing with the Wind
- My Lost Voice
- Winter Nights in Santa Fe
- Dancing with the Pacific
- Idaho in Twilight
- The Golden Moment
- Angel Fire

IV

- The Pendulum Sways
- Walking on a Daydream
- For the Spirit Longs
- Memories
- Our Dreams...an Endless Summer
- The Evening's Dusk
- My Ghostly Tune
- The Colors of Autumn
- Memories...Aloft

5.7.25

Hello dear friends,

So it's been a while since I have updated you on this site. In fact, for many years now, this website has become merely an online portfolio in the vast, endless void of the interweb. That I only really referenced in job resumes. I don't think I've added any new photography since around or before COVID-times, and I really only added the few poems I wrote for my short-lived artist Instagram account. But I have returned with some exciting news.

My poetry book, "Our Dreams...an Endless Summer," will be releasing soon (just finishing up a few design clean-ups). You may have noticed that my poem "This Fleeting Moment" is listed under “Our Dreams...an Endless Summer" (and a new, updated version of the poem will appear on the book) for several years now. Well, I actually had meant to release the book back during the autumn of 2021, but came across a lot of printing inconsistencies. So I decided to switch self-publishing companies as well as try and build a social media presence (that unfortunately failed miserably), and so my book was postponed indefinitely. And then came the tragedy of last year. I kid you not, my MacBook of 11 years crashed on my flipping birthday of all days. I lost all my progress on the book (I've always been good at backing up my photography–but I'd never picked up that habit with my writing). Luckily, I only lost one poem, my book cover, and my page layout. I spent the following year retyping and redesigning the book, and finally "Our Dreams...an Endless Summer" is ready for the world!

The book will feature 40 poems, and my photograph "Sleeping Goose or Our Dreams...an Endless Summer - Angel Fire, New Mexico - 14 April 2014," originally from my "Visual Niente" series as the cover image and chapter marker image. More details to come...

-BDM
3 May 2025

The new book cover for "Our Dreams...an Endless Summer"
5.3.25

A new poem from my book "Our Dreams...an Endless Summer"

Letters in the Rain
(from Our Dreams...an Endless Summer)
written on August 4, 2016


My words bleed in the summer rain.
The ink becomes a liquid once more
and fades from letters of an alphabet
into plashes of a language that I don’t know.
They’re no longer words,
but pure forms of emotions like thunder
grieving in the evening skies. The lightning sparks
and the ground shakes, the words are lost
and my pulse rose to a new ascent.
Muted,
my eyes widened in a flash.
The ink flows down the page,
dripping calligraphy from a fallen quill,
a plucked feather that’s been missing.
The air blows beneath me, but these wings
are too heavy as they soak,
bleeding lullabies,
transmuting words and syllables
to just sounds,
la-di-las of a language I once spoke,
dripping down—now descending
like soft rain. Smearing words into splotches
of beautiful colors—their meanings
flowing with—one another.