THE POETRY OF LAW

“Lawyer goes to the quiet trout stream called TruthThe Resting from the HarvestThe cool water flows lightlyForming eddies around the Lawyer’s bare legsStill at times.”~ excerpt from “The Resting from the Harvest” The Poetry of Law is a collection of 25 narrative poems about the human experience of Law. The poems involve the experience of an international lawyer beginning from a wilderness log cabin beginning at the dawn of the Internet and ending in Manhattan. Along the way are the sometimes seemingly insurmountable obstacles we all face in life and death, and the juxtaposed tragedy and comedy of country and city practice. Subjects include unusual and interesting clients and judges, from advocating Native American Treaty rights for the likes of Ojibwa Fred Dakota, the father of Native casino rights, appearing as a young lawyer before an equitable country judge, William Konstenius, a veteran of the Normandy Landing, and later winning a Second Circuit appeal before now U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonja Sotomayor. There is poetry in our search for understanding in ourselves and the world around us. Read more