• 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!

  • old man passing

    Coming soon in Healthline Zine’s Corporeal Issue.

  • night driving, '89

    Coming soon in Boudin’s Summer 2025 Issue.

  • popcorn bowl

    Coming soon in Full House Literary!

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

  • 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.”  

  • The Thin Man

    Published in the Summer 2025 Rituals Issue of Anomaly Poetry.

    “So brief was his contentment—”

  • I am, sir, yours

    A Frankenpoem.

    Coming soon in Blood & Honey.

  • The Windows

    A cut-and-paste poem of Ray Bradbury’s “The Pedestrian” (1958).

    Coming soon in Blood & Honey.

  • the melancholy of nuns, widows, & more ancient maids

    A Frankenpoem.

    Coming December 2025 in Genrepunk.

  • amnesia musicbox

    Coming soon in Waffle Fried Issue 2.

  • Middle Age

    Coming in 2025 in Glint Literary Journal.

  • 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!”

  • 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.”

  • 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.”

  • 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”

  • 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.

  • 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”

  • 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.”

  • 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”