NOTE: I wrote the following poem a few days after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. President Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill I, the leader of the Moscow-based Russian Orthodox Church, claim they are waging a Christian holy war in…Read the poem
Of all my days to middle age, you gave me less than ten. So little timeRead the poem
the hard-breathing trout explaining death to a childRead the poem
Under a raspberry haze, row after row of the smooth-sanded hills of the Coast Range compress into a flat two-dimensional view. Except for the accidental live oak here and there, bare grassland is all I see. …Read the poem
Wheel of Water gathers the best of David Baldwin's work, from family memories and haiku to poems of faith and conscience.