Current projects include : a poetry collection entitled " Afterimage ", which uses received forms to explore family photographs from the last two centuries ( focusing on the Great Plains and the Midwest ); " Morning Glory : A Story of Family and Culture in the Garden ", a gardening memoir that explores revelations of family abuse, silence, and depression through landscape design, natural history, and environmental philosophy; and " Sleep, Creep, Leap : The First Three Years of a Garden ", a collection of short narrative, humorous, and lyric essays on establishing a garden in Nebraska, from the author's wife peeling skin off of his back after a sunburn, to using one piece of mulch to balance the garden, and vanishing in a low-flying line of geese one evening in late autumn.
