Ratatouille & Potpourri Poems

Ratatouille & Potpourri Poems is a 44-poem medley blending everyday feeling with vivid nature and family scenes. Like ratatouille, the Provençal stew of seasonal vegetables, each poem adds its own flavor and slowly simmers into a satisfying whole. Like potpourri, a miscellaneous mix meant to delight the senses, the book offers a fragrant balance of confessional intimacy and poetry of witness, moving from flowers to love, from war to home. Written in flexible forms—rhyme, slant rhyme, or free verse—these evocative pieces invite readers to dip in, reflect, and return, to enjoy assonance and alliteration, images and metaphors.