Beau Beausoleil is a San Francisco based poet, but has deep ancestral roots in Quebec going back to the 1700's. He is the author of 13 books of poetry, the most recent being, A Glyphic House: New And Selected Poems 1976-2019 (Blue Light Press).
It is not the sturdy wooden beamsthat raise the house aloftthat I study but insteadthe rotting wooden plankstill dark and wetthat haswashed ashorealonethat will holdmy attentionforever