The title Wild Rose comes from the poet's mother, Jane Marie's, who loved the wild roses she collected in the forests of Northern Arizona and nurtured for over forty years. The second part of the book, Other Poems Sung by the Window, is a collection of poems inspired by her loving influence on his life.

"In a Past Life & Other Poems Sung by the Window" was written between December 13, 2021 & March 17, 2022 (an inflection point in the poet's life, truly a fit of creative mania) and includes themes of addiction, recovery, struggles to cope with the absurdity of life, death, rebirth, and ultimate redemption. It is an autobiographical survey, crossing the country that is in the poet's mind, with marker stones laid out to guide the reader along."In a Past Life", the title poem, traces ...