Things Buried in Western Soil

This is a poem collection about the lives shaped by open country and the things that never quite leave it.

These poems wander through cattle yards, rodeo arenas, weathered barns, drought-stricken fields, empty saddles, and kitchen tables where generations of hard-working people learned to love without always knowing how to say it.

It is about cowboys and the women who wait for them, fathers whose voices remain in old barns, horses that carry more secrets than people ever could, ranches passed down and ranches lost, and the quiet grief that settles into the prairie alongside dust and rain.

Because out West, not everything that gets buried is dead.

Some things simply become part of the land.