Art Stroll Through Port Angeles Fine Arts Center's Webster Woods Sculpture Garden to Find Poetry in the Park.

Read my new poems published on Four Feathers Press.

Paddling the Sweet Spot Between Life and Death Forthcoming March 2026 from Finishing Line Press, a poetry chapbook about the trauma of cancer diagnosis, grief, self-advocacy and recovery - a book about nature- and art-inspired healing. Photo by Ivan Bastein. Laura E. Garrard received a call that many of us fear. She thought she was a healthy person with an injury, and instead she harbored a rare blood cancer called multiple myeloma.

Elegy to a Cancer AltarAfter my diagnosis we moved West. I set an altar in our living roomoverlooking Lake Crescent.For over two years I knelt herestaring at an apex of Creation.Outside waves chewe…