My third book with Shanti Arts was published in 2021: Difficult Joy. Meditations on spirituality and art continue to permeate my work. These poems are organized around the seasons, one cycle of the four seasons and microseasons within them. Difficult Joy focuses on how our ways of relating through the pandemic have changed in deep and perhaps lasting ways. At the center of this collection is a translation of Hölderlin’s “Bread and Wine.”