New Barrier Islands

Barrier islands are what protect coastlines from erosion, and are essential to maintain fisheries, as well as land.  If they don’t exist, storms and wave action eat away the land.

On the other hand, they stop flotsam and jetsam from drifting ashore.

It’s the eternal double-edged sword:  What do we let in or keep out?

I hope these poems show you worlds you might not visit otherwise, and they erode the separation we feel from people and places unlike ourselves and our own.

These poems are explorations of nature, family, love and their intersections.

New Barrier Islands is about lives lived near and along the shores of South Louisiana and the land, water and humans there.  These people and this place are parochial, yet universal, and remind us we are united on this blue marble, that, as the philosopher Gottfried Leibnitz said, “…is the best of all possible worlds.”