In 2022 I met a great poet, musician, and publisher named Tohm Bakelas who founded Between Shadows Press, who has since published such great voices as my wife, Richard Brautigan, d.a. levy, and Kent Taylor. He helped me a great deal by getting me out of a slump and getting me back into poetry. The result of that influence was the 2022 chapbook the silent crucifixion. That chapbook sold out shortly after release. I have included it in its entirety below.

the silent crucifixion is a chapbook with a selection of poems written between 2017 and 2022 including:

• the silent crucifixion (parts 1-5)
• scents and whirlwinds
• four figures in the desert, by a rock, or a stone
• frozen breath caught in a jar on a winter day
• shoebox found under bed
• hungry in babylon
• a lost meadow, not altered, or damned