-Solemnity Cake-
I was listening to Joel Martin from Toledo while unpacking boxes of my deceased mother’s belongings & decorating for Christmas. I reused the previous years Advent candles so I would have enough money to buy a slice of discounted cake from the Konditorei, a local desert shop. It was a day of preparation & remembrance, worship & work, chocolate cake & new music. All of these conduits of grace fortified my soul for the year to come, 2020, the year of disasters.

Solemnity Cake is from The Litany of Disasters, a volume of spoken word poetry accompanied by the music of Wallflower People.

PRAISE
"Sherman's poems are meditative and always sojourning, if such a word can be used to describe poetry. The words and Sherman's distinct rhythmic delivery evoke something very monastic - that is, peaceful, open, disciplined, loving. One line of his comes to my mind most frequently as I tumble through this world, arriving at and leaving countless strange and wonderful spaces: Packing day -- the final uncertainty."
-Joel Martin
Songwriter, Joel Martin From Toledo

“A traveler’s soul expressing himself with all the details of life in an honest and heart felt phrase.”
-Joe Simon
Guitarist, Turbo Perfecto

“Instead of striking loudly, Sherman's poetry meanders with internal rhyme and playful meter through an array of lived-in experience that touches the fulcrum of cognition and faith.”
-Coleman Weimer
Award winning filmmaker, Mount Angel Pilgrim