Chris Dingman

Free This Morning Chris Dingman

Billy Collins has written of Chris Dingman's poetry, "You definitely have something going here: the quick take, unexpected turn-arounds, lots of playfulness... delightful in many instances."

Like the poetry of Collins, as well as that of Robert Frost, Rumi, Mary Oliver, and Bob Dylan, Dingman's is both literary and accessible.

More than that, though, "from the giddily playful to the sublime," Dingman's "humor, insight, and open-hearted acceptance of the world in all its wonder" are "great for those moments of respite, where one sinks into their favorite seat, with a steaming mug on the table next to them."

By turns tender and funny, "soulful and wistful and whimsical at the same time," Dingman's poems will "give you a new way of looking at things and new things to think about."

(Above quotes from Amazon reviews of Dingman's first book of poems, The Morning I Married the Sky.)

Selections from Free this Morning:

dawning
i like how you look
in the morning
best of all,
your face softened
by dreaming, your voice
softened too, just
one or two words-
a mumble,
a broken egg,
breakfast

when the plovers fly
when the plovers fly
low across
the salty pond
there are two

of them, the one

and the reflection of
the one

Are you free this morning? Do you want to be?

(For more from and about Chris Dingman, who now writes under the pen name Chris Spark, visit www. Sparkwrites.com)