The Sound of the Earth Singing to Herself

[Chapbook: 46 Pages.] "I set desire / on fire / and she screamed/ I couldn't tell / if the scream / was agony / or ecstasy what's the difference?" - From 'What's Left' "and when we settle into our dens at night, we talk of you, as one might talk of a cupped hand, fading slowly, the rest of the body long departed: a rusty bucket, offering water-all that's left of a god. " - From 'Somewhere in Indiana' Ricky Ray entwines the beauty of the world and his love of life with the weight of phy