Featured in this month’s ‘Local Artist Spotlight’!

It’s not every day you’re flipping through the local newspaper and come across a feature on yourself! I was happy to find that a poem of mine was published in this month’s issue of Los Gatos This Week. I was less happy to have my face plastered onto the page as well, but, hey.

They’ve published a poem titled “Eggs for Dumplings” from my debut poetry collection, The Weight of Snow (Black Swift Press, 2014). The full collection is available in both print and e-format from Amazon and all other major eBook retailers.

E GGS FOR  D UMPLINGS

In the dark kitchen, you crack

eggs for dumplings, drunk with

the ebbing heat of summer

and berry wine. As I look on,

I can see you there in dim light

falling to pieces.

We walk into the garden,

watch throngs of honeybees

nose up to the lavender and sip.

The dog’s body now buried

in the hot earth, the sorrows

of your heart knowing the sighs

of the doves. In the trees, the jays

greet the dusk, blue as bruises.

We stand barefoot

beside the crooked oak

and throw pebbles into the twilight sky.

Heads thrown back, we watch bats

dive in their silent pursuit, unknowing.

- Excerpt from The Weight of Snow (Black Swift Press, 2014) by B. L. Bruce

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