Ryler Dustin Livres

Heavy Lead Birdsong presents a poignant collection of love poems that explore themes of resilience and the human spirit. Imagery of an old man planting orchards in his chest and angels conveying messages through graffiti intertwine with a perilous winter journey back to the Ice Age. Drawing inspiration from science and religion, the poems balance subtle humor with profound reflections, offering a celebration of hope amidst contemporary political challenges.

Trailer Park Psalms traces the speaker’s journey beyond his boyhood trailer park, through an American landscape marked by violence—from a gas line explosion in his hometown to his father’s war memories to the scars of colonialism inscribed in place, language, and ecology.