Mast Years

Mast Years: Poems inhabit the Pacific Northwest. This collection explores excess in nature, peace in place, and imagination in intrepidness. Mast Years: Poems play with the natural phenomenon of excessively robust crops from particular trees and shrubs. The timing is variable. When this happens, it is called a mast year. These "mast years" often foretell extremes in the predator-prey cycle.