Home is over the mountain and down in the holler

Breakfast with brush and paper

He never wanted to leave this place

One November night we warmed ourselves with poetry

Illustration of roll up pen and brush case

Pen and ink illustrations

Some days all you need…

Over two months of writing a poem a day
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October quickly fades

I raise my cup to invite the bright moon

Raised cup to invite the moon

Haiku a morning in a thousand pixels

Haiku a morning in a thousand pixels

Gather ’round the radio

Time to gather ’round the radio

Legend

Inktober — Day 15

15 year anniversary

Historic Battery Park Apartments, Asheville, North Carolina
Rooftop Poets

Now it is winter

What do you see in this photo?

A lot of things have changed in the last ten years. This photo captures an early Monday morning in downtown Asheville, North Carolina. When I look at this photo, I see a thousand words of visual storytelling. But I also see what is left out. Each photo is framed in such a manner as to communicate what the photographer intends. What do you see in this photo? If you had to write a thousand words about this photo, how would the first sentence read?

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Foggy morning. Downtown Asheville.

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Things you will not find in an e-book

Poem Fourteen: Sunrises I and III

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Poem Thirteen: Reading “The American Zen Master” by Dick Allen

Reading The American Zen Master

Poem Eleven: Narrative kernel

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Poem Ten: Values

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Thursday Great Lakes blues

Lake Michigan. Last week. As viewed from the the Milwaukee Art Museum’s Baumgartner Galleria. Glass sculpture.

World Peace Tree at Cathedral Square Park

Poem 7: Always Departing

An excerpt of
An excerpt of “Always Departing” by Matthew Mulder from the anthology Rooftop Poets.

Poem 6: Saturday Night, Coffeehouse

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NOTES: Originally published in Rapid River Arts & Culture Magazine, April 2004. Unable to locate the printed artifact nor find a digital version on the publisher’s website, I photographed this draft of “Saturday Night, Coffeehouse.”