POETRY

Innovation Grief Is Hard Creativity:
touch string break toss_

My debut poetry collection and creative leadership manifesto.

In the quiet geometry of Appalachian life, Virginia Lee used the kitchen to grow Jesus like a garden. On a redwood deck outside her kitchen in Elkatawa, Kentucky, she broke fresh green beans from the garden into a Tupperware bowl. She taught her son the physics of the cosmos: touch, string, break, toss~ / touch, string, break, toss~ / how do stars talk to each other mommy?"

I grew from those hills to become a culture futurist, a poet, and the founder of an organization built on a single conviction: America is standing in a burning field of its own invention and still has no language for grieving what's been lost.

It is the story of my search for that language. A reclamation of wonder in an AI era of discovery. Here are a few sample selections from the book, which will be published in 2027.