No, I'm not the (former) CNN anchor. Nor am I the linebacker from Texas. I live in the area around Austin, TX, but I was born and raised in Southern California.
I'm a software developer by day, and a photographer and poet when I have the time to indulge myself.
The smoke-tainted wind
brushes graceful fingers
through skeletons of leaves,
discussing the night in whispers
...
January's frozen breath
chilled February's dreams.
March's steady thaw
soothed April's little fears.
...
When the poet set out to capture poems,
building cages of paper and ink,
shouted she in vain at reluctant words
to come lay down within them.
...
ashes and snow
drifting in soft and low,
falling ever so end over end
drawn over the foreground,
...