Dead Fish Don't Bite

This collection of spoken-word poems is written to rouse feeling, bring attention to issues, and encourage people toward change. Its verses move through seasons of joy, grief, hardship, and triumph. The poet describes how the everyday pressures of life pull attention away from what matters most, with countless enticements competing for our notice every day. Some of these are genuine calls, and some are lures meant to trap us.

The book uses the image of fishing throughout, asking readers to tell bait from lure and to look honestly at their own circumstances. Its poems aim to turn the reader back toward God and to invite them to accept salvation, which the book links to the call to become fishers of men in Matthew 4:19. Several poems draw on Deuteronomy 30, presenting a choice between life and its blessings and death, with an appeal to choose life for oneself and one's children, to walk in the light, and to follow God's plan.

The author leaves the decision to the reader. Readers who enjoy faith-centered verse with a rhythmic, spoken style, and who want poems that speak to personal struggle and spiritual decisions, will find the collection suited to them.