John Brehm's latest book of poems is Dharma Talk, from Wisdom Publications. He is also the editor of the bestselling anthology, The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy, and the author of a book of essays, The Dharma of Poetry, both also from Wisdom. A new anthology, The Poetry of Grief, Gratitude, and Reverence is forthcoming September 2024. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Other poems by John Brehm in Verse Daily:
April 14, 2021:   "Something and Nothing" "There's something to be said..."
March 25, 2012:   "Over and Under" "So sexy to slide under..."
October 17, 2002:  "A Returning" "Tonight my father's love for me / is the crowbar he places gently..."
September 25, 2002:  "Revelation" "...my memories like bewildered animals..."
September 9, 2002:  "My Emotions Are Like Fish" "Mostly they live in the dark..."

Other poems on the web by John Brehm:
"Seven Haiku"
"Morning in East Wallingford"
Twenty-four poems
Two poems
"Blathery Performance"
"Walking Underground"
Seven poems

John Brehm's Website.

About Dharma Talk:

"John's work reminds me of the great Japanese haiku poets: their attention to the smallest details, compression of language, and a rich appreciation of nature and the human condition."
—Joseph Goldstein

"Think of this collection as a Guidebook to Emptiness—to everything and nothing (which, as the poet tells us, are interchangeable). Brehm gives us a taste of that everything in images ranging from jasmine blossoms placed beside the bed to perfume the dreamer's sleep, to a brain bathed in sea salt and lavender. These collected lines hang in the air like the spider's web described in Brehm's poem Design: 'knowing / just how / much to give / in either / direction / without breaking.' Dharma Talk is full of wonders."
—Danusha Laméris