Released June 2026.

A frequent visitor to the Adirondack Park can’t help but formulate a spiritual center to their small experience of the woods, lakes, towns, and mountains that make up New York’s subsection of the Great North Woods. The following poems touch on the people and places, primarily of the Central Adirondacks. Balsam & Loon is a trip up Routes 28 and 30 in the summer, a swim in a backwoods pond with friends after a long hike. Come along for the ride, with the scent of balsam fir in the air, and the call of the loon outside the lake cottage after dark.