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boy crazy
Published in Moist Poetry Journal, Summer Riot Series, August 19, 2025.
“tell me again about those
backseat creeps
their pickup beds & sleeper vans” -
mavis beacon teaches typing
Coming soon in Fish Barrel Review!
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old man passing
Coming soon in Healthline Zine’s Corporeal Issue.
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night driving, '89
Coming soon in Boudin’s Summer 2025 Issue.
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popcorn bowl
Coming soon in Full House Literary!
First published in the now defunct Skink Beat Review, Trash Issue, 2024.
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Hearts & Thoughts (A Telephone Sequence)
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.”
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The Thin Man
Published in the Summer 2025 Rituals Issue of Anomaly Poetry.
“So brief was his contentment—”
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I am, sir, yours
A Frankenpoem.
Coming soon in Blood & Honey.
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The Windows
A cut-and-paste poem of Ray Bradbury’s “The Pedestrian” (1958).
Coming soon in Blood & Honey.
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the melancholy of nuns, widows, & more ancient maids
A Frankenpoem.
Coming December 2025 in Genrepunk.
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amnesia musicbox
Coming soon in Waffle Fried Issue 2.
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Middle Age
Coming in 2025 in Glint Literary Journal.
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don'ts
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” -
dear forsythia
Published in Ode to Dionysius’ Issue 2: The Field of Enna.
“lay me down, forsythia,
to bed, to bed,” -
A Home in the Afterlife
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.” -
Road Triptych: Tarr Hollow / Windover / Crowfoot
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. “ -
frankly
Published by Stink Eye Magazine in 2024.
“frankly nothing as lovely as a halfmoonsliver
of bigtoenail that you set & forget” -
I Woke Up
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.” -
Job Description
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” -
urban rot grrltalk
Published in Black Glass Pages, Issue 1: Liminality.
“I want to
bite down hard on a knuckle & pop” -
dirt//poor
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” -
eavesdropping
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” -
With or Without You
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!”
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Daughters, table reserved
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,” -
The Levittown Annex Boys of Summer
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.”
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At the Local
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.”
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today’s gonna be a scorcher, kid
Published in the Summer 2024 Rituals Issue of Anomaly Poetry.
“sesame & coffee grounds
linger on your fruited breath” -
Cold pizza in bed
Published in Gnashing Teeth’s The Cost of Our Baggage Anthology, 2024.
“This is what a sore thumb looks like”
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Class of 2000
Published in Y2K Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue 2.
“We were promised a glistening
new millenii matrices of
discoball’d infinitum” -
fatberg
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” -
sliding down the stairs
Published in Free Verse Revolution, Issue XII: Ancestors.
“everyone knows, & your
elder cousin would have told
you” -
a cairn in the woods
Published in Vilas Avenue, Issue 6: Impermanence.
“this final summer nothing but
mandible & sleek salamander skin,” -
crazy on you
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” -
Life won't stand still!
A Frankenpoem published in Inkfish Magazine, Autumn 2024.
“my mouth was full of birds
entombed, rambling” -
prey-predator interaction
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” -
not-in-my-backyard
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.
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ONE-CHANNEL SEPARATION
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”
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The night we drive through a Walmart Supercenter
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.”
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Trying to still the children for a photo
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,” -
Song of Stairwells
Published in t’art online, Summer Edition 2024.
“Cityside, the endless stair, the great lifeline
in minted rail.” -
On the Day of a School Shooting
Published by West Trestle Review in March 2025.
“And what of Mother?
She is the shroud,
she is the nest,
agape,
bewildered,” -
White Angora
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,” -
Add It Up
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” -
2 Monologues in the Idealized Voices of My Young Parents
Published by Mollusk Lit, Issue 3, 2024.
“those tiny ivory hands love
you wouldn’t believe” -
#4 Mary Sequence (Clap Your Hands)
Published in Alice Says Go Fuck Yourself, Issue 7: Badass Mamas.
“Clap your hands for Mother Sorrow
A sad-lined, teary mouse” -
Electricondisumption
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.” -
girl in a garden
Published in The Passionfruit Review’s 2024 Being in Bodies anthology.
“I want to eat black soil
and yellow starbursts
like cake” -
The Harmonica Player
Published in Zhagaram Literary Magazine, Issue 2: Mythical Mosaics.
“They say the sea accepts him—
most ancient of lovers—” -
Where You Been?
Published in WIREWORM Issue 2.
“his cadence
more candied than canDid” -
THE BODY OF THE T
A Frankenpoem published in BLEACH! Issue 2.
“The female mind is a storehouse:
smooth, economical, automatic.” -
Strange & Fretful Times(in Television)
Published in Street Cake Magazine, Issue 88.
“The drama of introspection is a drama
with wideness & weight(“ -
Insect song
Published in indefinite space magazine, 2024 Issue.
“I reach
for my roots
scrape my briny legs” -
Lucky Ones
Published in indefinite space magazine, 2024 Issue.
“A doll’s home on fire
Wild, inspired”