Poet and writer (and retired attorney) and one time Pushcart Prize nominee (mistakes do happen) and practicing Buddhist (some things you can never get right, but you practice anyway), novelist in search of an Agent, jazz lover in search of the perfect trio (Bill Charlap comes closest). Author of "The Right to Depart," published by Plain View Press, ISBN: 9780911051308 (2008) My work has appeared in Aura Literary Arts Review, Afterthoughts (CA), Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Celt at Aberffraw (Ire), Chaminade Literary Review, Candelabrum Poetry Magazine (UK), Exquisite Corpse, HazMat Review, Legal Studies Forum, Luna Negra, Main Street Rag, Midstream, European Judaism (UK), Pearl, Rattle, RE:AL The Journal of Liberal Arts, The South Carolina Review, Vigil (UK), The Worcester Review and too many elsewhere to list. My work has been anthologized in Hearsay: Poetry By Lawyers, Kafka Kaleidoscope (Birch Brook Press) and Torture and Triumph (Scars Publ.).