Nature

James Thomas Fletcher has lived in a tenth-century Cistercian Monastery in Belgium, the Piedmont of the Carolinas, a protected heron rookery in the northern wetlands, the Acadian bayous of Louisiana, the shortgrass prairie of the Great Plains, and on the side of a volcano in the Republic of Panamá. He also trekked the jungles of Vietnam while in the United States Army. He has steamed down the Amazon River, sailed the Atlantic in a storm, scuba dived in the Pacific, skydived in Oklahoma, and snowshoed in Canada. These poems reflect those experiences and his impressions of the flora, fauna, and weather-the true sense of place-of the many locations that he has called home.