The collected poems in Royal Blue Shutters explore the pull and tug of language, the tin-like sounds, the careful alignment, and robust admiration of words. Stanzas are bulked up with their own musicality-songs that can't be sung but only released from the lips in a prattle.

Their subject matter turns the ordinary on its head, bringing questions to the fore about what it means to take one's place on the world's unglamorous stage. Insights of rare beauty are shared as chitchat, and whether petite in nature or longer, these poems are vignettes about life's inexplicable yet dutiful rhythm.