Concrete Psalms

Concrete Psalms is a collection of poems rooted in the streets of San Francisco, Boston, Phoenix, and Albuquerque, where worn sidewalks, corner bars, alleys, diners, vacant lots, and aging neighborhoods become landscapes of memory and quiet revelation. Moving through cities shaped by change and loss, the poems give voice to veterans, laborers, bartenders, immigrants, aging parents, wanderers, and others living on society's margins, finding grace in ordinary lives and overlooked places. Written with a journalist's eye for observation and a poet's economy of language, Concrete Psalms explores displacement, faith, addiction, family, mortality, and the enduring search for belonging. Spare, compassionate, and unsentimental, these poems discover moments of resilience and redemption amid urban decay, revealing the sacred in the commonplace and the extraordinary hidden within everyday experience.