the Light Reached Table: Poems

The Light Reached the Table begins where certainty ends. Across these poems, the dead remain absent, estranged families remain unresolved, childhood cannot be repaired, and faith offers no simple answers. Yet the world continues: morning enters through a window, bread is placed on a table, olive trees hold their ground, the sea receives the evening, and ordinary acts of tenderness persist. Moving through landscapes in America, London, Greece, and the Aegean, the collection considers grief, memory, family, belief, aging, and the difficult work of living without the explanations, apologies, or restoration once thought necessary. Its poems do not present healing as a return to what was. Instead, they seek another way forward-one that can hold sorrow and beauty, boundaries and love, absence and gratitude at the same time. A companion to The Quiet Turning, this collection follows the quieter life that emerges afterward: not untouched by loss, but no longer governed entirely by it. Nothing is resolved. The empty chair remains. And still, the light reaches the table.