The Sound Beneath The Wind is a lyrical meditation on apprenticeship to landscape, weather, stillness, and ultimately to attention itself.
Set in the wide country of canyon walls, and high ridgelines, these poems trace a solitary speaker’s gradual adaption to the discipline of listening. Elk move through timber like living geometry. Rivers worry stone into patience. Wind presses through maple and aspen until sound itself thins into something elemental.
Written in spare, image-driven lines, The First Silence resists sentimentality in favor of grounded physical presence. Nature here is not backdrop but teacher — not metaphor but force. The poems dwell in thresholds: between current and air, shadow and light, breath and stone.
This volume serves as the foundational work preceding The Discipline of Light, tracing the formative encounters that shape a life of deliberate seeing.