Jesse Doiron
November 8, 2026
– Stories and Memories from the Texas Pines, Utley & Jordan, editors
He showed me “the rivers” of words that flowed
between his “sandy hills” and “timber stands”
of thought.
He emptied his “pocket prairies,” full of treasured
stories about “the people . . . in the pine forests”
and love.
He took my hand when we crossed “their streams,”
so I would not slip ’way into my own bewildering,
dark thoughts.
He knew “the towns, and cities” of good souls,
“whose lives and lifeways are bound together”
with love.
He held fast “our moments . . . evermore” in poems
I read aloud, again, alone with him, as still within
his thoughts.
Jesse Doiron has worked in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia as an educator and consultant. His teaching experience ranges from English for international business at the UC – Berkeley Extension in San Francisco to creative writing at the Mark Stiles Maximum Security Prison for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
