featured:
HAIKU FOR THE STICKBUG AS AN ARTISTGASTROPODA * 2022
"In whorls of tea-grass, / here is where he'd stripe his line / of spotted brindle."
the rest of 'em:
SOCIAL CREATURES or ON ANT BRIDGEScorporeal lit mag * 2022
"it’s about having a place. about becoming / your own movement. your sister is an abutment..."
AUTOTHYSIScorporeal lit mag * 2022
"ALSO KNOWN AS ALTRUISTIC EXPLOSION, THIS IS A SUICIDAL ACT OBSERVED IN CERTAIN..."
HAIBUN ERASURE FOR LUCIFER AS THE MONSTERwarning lines lit issue 5, "adversary" * 2022
"When He creates you, you are blinding piecemeal. The best of angels torn / asunder for new creation..."
DIOSCURI, HALVED OR: I NAME MYSELF AFTER A TWINKissing Dynamite issue 37 * 2021 * BOTN nominated!
"I will be like a present unraveling for you. okay? ribbon tied untied tied again loose."
FELIX CULPAwarning line lit issue 3, "fall'n cherub" * 2021
"Lucifer must have cried hell-hot tears on the way down. / Unrighteous, damnable little anger-tears..."
BURNING HAIBUN FOR A RIBwarning line lit issue 3, "fall'n cherub" * 2021
"So Eve saw her reflection. She gazed. A few minutes, maybe more— / thought to ask her purpose... "
TANKA FOR THE HAWTHORNFrom the Farther Trees "Trees" pop-up issue * 2021
"her beau left the eve / the fairy-tree bloomed fuchsia: / so I took her there, / danced away..."
OH, HOW THE MONSTER MOVES WHEN THE MOON IS OUTMiniskirt Mag issue 5 * 2021
"What you have to understand is Nessie is a complicated woman. One side she’s driftwood rigid..."
ANOTHER POEM ABOUT EYE CONTACTperhappened mag issue 14, "hide & seek" * 2021
"It goes like this: / our reservations die with the daylight. / We just watched Brokeback Mountain..."
ON WATCHING TWO BUCKSWrongdoing Magazine issue 2, "thorns" * 2021
FIVE MINISONSThe Minison Project issue 13 * 2021
"half-worms, alive / soak'd w/ bled neon / peachmango girl / hands are sticky / sowbug painting."
I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED BUGS /warning lines lit issue 2, "echo" * 2021
"since walking, like / I read bug encyclopedias cover-to-cover as bedtime stories loved bugs..."
IF THE BODY IS A TEMPLEwith confetti mag issue 1 * 2021
AUGUR, BUTCHERBIRDNot Deer Mag * 2021
"We’re walking over the bridge in the town’s meager forest / when you tell me a girl our age killed..."
STAGNATIONstone of madness press issue 2 * 2021
"Chipped paint turns with the carousel, a blur of canary and phthalo and rust. The music ends..."
FOOL'S DANCESouthchild Lit issue 2, "Fool" * 2021
"Test with your toetip, then / fall into footstep, / pirouette, / float off / the peaktop— / gravity only..."
A DEAL IS MADE BY CLASPING HANDS.perhappened mag issue 6, "fairytale" * 2020
"In my childhood garden / (a rectangle of yard, threadbare with patchy grass) / the flowers are all..."
A GREEN LIGHT, AND THEN IT FADES.opia mag issue 6, "nostalgia" * 2020
"I used to know a girl who’d crush lightning bugs, swipe their shine over her fingernails for free..."
MAYBE IT'S JUST THE LONG DRIVE GETTING TO ME.perhappened mag issue 2, "road trip" * 2020
"Road trips taken alone / are one of those liminal space things, / I think. HELL IS REAL, / a billboard tells..."
WREN AND BOWERBIRDWine Cellar Press * 2020
GLASS BY THE RIVERWhiskey Island Mag * 2019