Coming soon in Moss Puppy Magazine Issue 9: Echoed Howls.

“& the music was unshakeable 
it filled the echo chambers 

of that stuffy attic apartment 
like waves of reefer smoke”

Coming soon in Red Ogre Review.

A frankenpoem.  Sources:

Teale, Edwin Way. “Ant Lore.” New Horizons through Reading and Literature, Brewton, John E., Babette Lemon & Marie Ernst (Eds), Laidlaw Brothers Inc., 1958, pp. 287-294.

&

A full-page advertisement for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in National Geographic Magazine, August 1953.

Coming soon in The Reprise!

Previously published in the now-defunct Of Rust & Glass Magazine.

Coming soon in Juniper Zine.

Coming soon in Healthline Zine’s Corporeal Issue.

A Frankenpoem.

Coming December 2025 in Genrepunk.

Coming in 2025 in Glint Literary Journal.

Published in Blood & Bourbon’s Appetite Issue, #16.

“he wants 

to sink into your damp earth, 
salt-lick, bone-chalk,”

Published in Full House Literary Issue #2!

First published in the now defunct Skink Beat Review, Trash Issue, 2024.

“stiff kernels in my ear”

Published in Waffle Fried Issue 2: Resilience.

“how i slipped 
my fingertips 

over the pang 
of your septic penance”

Published in Overgrowth Press’ Pink Issue.

“it’s true
all i’ve ever learned
of love is by spinning
the radio dial”

Published in Prosetrics Magazine #11: Whelve.

“Congratulations, I offer to the pile of ash, car keys, 
paper cups, shrugging my shoulders.”

Published in Stink Eye Magazine, September 2025.

“only

it is winter &
my impishness is sleeping
on the inside”

Published in Fish Barrel Review, Issue 10.

“it’s the summer after i take typing classes & practice at home with mavis beacon the summer i discover dialup & take my eager heart to online chatrooms”

Published in The McNeese Review/Boudin’s Retro Summer 2025 Issue.

“windows down, 
stray hairs whip 
frantic at my face, 
freckled
with tingling stars”

A cut-and-paste poem based on Ray Bradbury’s “The Pedestrian” (1958) published in Blood & Honey, August 2025.

“The people sat like the dead, ill-lit by television light, still, undrawn against the night, 

touching expressionless faces  )but never really touching them(“

A Frankenpoem based on 18th century texts—one on meat carving and the other dramatic essays, published in Blood & Honey, August 2025.

“I am, sir, yours
)a heap of dust and ashes
& precious morceaux of wit
served whole to those who desire it”

Published in Moist Poetry Journal, Summer Riot Series, August 19, 2025.

“tell me again about those
backseat creeps
their pickup beds & sleeper vans”

Published in The Soliloquist, Issue 2, July 2025.

This form is what I’m calling “a telephone sequence,” since I’ve yet to find evidence of its invention. It’s a self-contained word-game.  Taking a cue from the classic game of “telephone,” we start with an original stanza, which is more or less coherent, but then each successive stanza starts to unravel, replacing the lines with lookalike and soundalike words so that ultimately we end up with something entirely different but “close enough.”  

Published in the Summer 2025 Rituals Issue of Anomaly Poetry.

“So brief was his contentment—”

Published in the limited run of Anomaly Poetry’s Cat Ladies Against Fascism 2024 Anthology.

“don’t smirk don’t flirt don’t brag don’t stumble 
don't you even dare dare dare”

Published in Ode to Dionysius’ Issue 2: The Field of Enna.

“lay me down, forsythia, 
to bed, to bed,”

Published by Crow & Cross Keys in December 2024.

“On the eve of your passing, you find yourself pondering the front porch. The door swings
open just for you, keys being irrelevant of course, and when you step inside, the place 
is perfectly preserved as if in the amber of your own recollection.”

Published in Stanchion Issue 17.

“I map my memory, drift from Tarr Hollow 
to Windover to Crowfoot, pulled ‘round with the blacktop’s 
tide, my tether as heavy as wild grapevine. “

Published by Stink Eye Magazine in 2024.

“frankly nothing as lovely as a halfmoonsliver
of bigtoenail that you set & forget”

A Frankenpoem published by Stink Eye Magazine in 2024.

“Ignore it? I wished I could.
The engine might quit any time,
like a wave about to break.”

Published by Stink Eye Magazine in 2024.

“Being variously employed, being powered, & em-
powered so, being nodes of delegation, being
performatively qualified, pursuant to nuance”

Published in Black Glass Pages, Issue 1: Liminality.

“I want to
bite down hard on a knuckle & pop”

Published in Sublimation: Volume 1, Issue 3, August 2024 — We Are Monsters All.

Nominated for Pushcart 2025.

“you can never tell what secrets await in the earth because
when a thing is used & forgotten it becomes real 
because when a thing is used & forgotten
it learns the story of itself”

Published in Sublimation: Volume 1, Issue 3, August 2024 — We Are Monsters All.

“The truth is we
are invitations all of us
for the breaking”

A poem on U2’s “With or Without You.”

Published by Major 7th Magazine in 2024.

“Midsummer is silver and this night,

we pinball!

—the headlights!

—the stars!”

Published in Suburban Witchcraft Issue 6.

Nominated for 2026 Best of the Net.

“The problem with 
the sharing of a body 
even once
is the timbre and lilt 
of it,”

Published in Suburban Witchcraft Issue 6.

“Summers we dress supreme boheme like Hope Sandoval, dreamcatcher heartbreaker.  Summerslick skin, sapling limbs.  We know how to wear 17.”

Published in the Summer 2024 Rituals Issue of Anomaly Poetry.

“Tonight the rum goes down easy like honey.  The air buzzes with heavy masculine sighs.”

Published in the Summer 2024 Rituals Issue of Anomaly Poetry.

“sesame & coffee grounds 
linger on your fruited breath”

Published in Gnashing Teeth’s The Cost of Our Baggage Anthology, 2024.

“This is what a sore thumb looks like”

Published in Y2K Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue 2.

“We were promised a glistening
new millenii matrices of
discoball’d infinitum”

Published in MEMEZINE, The Slop Issue, 2024.

“there was this old joke about
a woodpecker in a mulberry tree
& the punchline lodged 
itself in your teeth”

Published in Free Verse Revolution, Issue XII: Ancestors.

“everyone knows, & your 
elder cousin would have told 
you”

Published in Vilas Avenue, Issue 6: Impermanence.

“this final summer nothing but
mandible & sleek salamander skin,”

Published in MIDLVLMAG: Secret Menu, Summer 2024.

“i can hear the rattle & hum, the frantic over-drive of my body
breaking out like music calling to yours, incandescent”

A Frankenpoem published in Inkfish Magazine, Autumn 2024.

“my mouth was full of birds
entombed, rambling”

A Frankenpoem published in Inkfish Magazine, Autumn 2024.

“there are animals that appear to be
large fake eyes rolling, churning
in a flash of lightning”

A Frankenpoem published in (the now defunct?) Skink Beat Review, Trash Issue, 2024.

Sources:

Catlow, Agnes & Maria E. “The Children’s Garden and What They Made Of It.” London, Spottiswoode & Co, pp. 89-93.

&

Raloff, Janet. “The Growing Garbage Mess.” Science Year: The World Book Science Annual (1990), World Book Inc., pp. 57-67.

A Frankenpoem published in The Harpy Hybrid Review, Issue 11, Fall 2024.

“There were city schools There were sand-scratched signals  There were so many children”

Published in The Woolf, Music Issue, May 2024.

Nominated for Best of the Net 2025.

“The night we drive through a Walmart Supercenter, a red cartoon devil dangles from your rearview. A palm frond disintegrates on the blue dash. It’s complicated like that.”

Published in Parcham Magazine, Spring 2024, Poems on Children and Childhood.

“my shutter speed cannot
match to capture
the verb and reverb of
such giddy atoms,”

Published in t’art online, Summer Edition 2024.

“Cityside, the endless stair, the great lifeline
in minted rail.”

Published by West Trestle Review in March 2025.

Nominated for Best of the Net 2026.

“And what of Mother?

She is the shroud,
she is the nest,

agape,
bewildered,”

Published in Free the Verse, Issue 9: Bodies.

“In the dream, at the funeral, I want deadly
to be small again, to sidle up
to her familiar shape,”

A poem on The Violent Femmes’ “Add It Up.”

Published by Major 7th Magazine in February 2024.

“I wanna be sick with sleaze
Gimme that infernal manboy whine, dear bloated heart”

Published by Mollusk Lit, Issue 3, 2024.

“those tiny ivory hands love
you wouldn’t believe”

Published in Alice Says Go Fuck Yourself, Issue 7: Badass Mamas.

“Clap your hands for Mother Sorrow
A sad-lined, teary mouse”

A cut-and-paste poem published by Genrepunk Magazine in February 2024.

“The Cost Of Being is set at 140° to 160°F.
It’s elec-probably 1,000 on-and-off cycles,
calculated by multiplying the price difference.”

Published in The Passionfruit Review’s 2024 Being in Bodies anthology.

“I want to eat black soil
and yellow starbursts
like cake”

Published in Zhagaram Literary Magazine, Issue 2: Mythical Mosaics.

“They say the sea accepts him—
most ancient of lovers—”

Published in WIREWORM Issue 2.

“his cadence 
more candied than canDid”

A Frankenpoem published in BLEACH! Issue 2.

“The female mind is a storehouse:
smooth, economical, automatic.”

Published in Street Cake Magazine, Issue 88.

“The drama of introspection is a drama 
with wideness & weight(“

Published in indefinite space magazine, 2024 Issue.

“I reach 
for my roots
scrape my briny legs”

Published in indefinite space magazine, 2024 Issue.

“A doll’s home on fire
Wild, inspired”

Published in Storm Cellar Vol. X No. 2.

“it must be spring
in pittsburgh, the photograph’s
feathered haze softening the green
of your eyes)”

Published in Rogue Agent Issue 91.

“Maybe it will be spring and I’ll be waiting in my best
Sunday dress with knocking knees, holding
a pink carnation and a Hallmark
for the occasion.”

Published in tiny spoon Issue 9: the remix.

“ / softly / though in response my heart grows space-dark / and the sky yes the sky swallowing me whole”

Published in tiny spoon Issue 9: the remix.

“and we alone,
two spellbound creatures, alone”

Published in tiny spoon Issue 9: the remix.

“and our blazing chorus / howled around and we “

Published in Better Than Starbucks Lady May 2022 Vol VII No II.

“I keep(

your words tucked
behind my ear a white gardenia”

Published in Neologism Poetry Journal Issue #56.

“let me unravel the seams of silence let me retrace the ridges of your fingertips let me hurry my words towards yes”

Published in BLUEPEPPER, January 27, 2022.

“Father,
Some nights I sneak
into the garage to sit 
in the passenger’s seat

of your old pickup truck”

Erasure published in swifts & slows Number Eighteen, March 2023.

Erasure published in swifts & slows Number Eighteen, March 2023.

Erasure published in swifts & slows Number Eighteen, March 2023.

Published in Tales from PA, October 2022.

“Zeke calls himself the Mayor of Slant”

Published in Literary Mama November/December 2023.

“Mary has a kitchen and it smells of bathtub gin
Mary is a briny seahorse, sweetly Florida skinned”