Poetry

Instructions for How to Live My Life

Published by Heartwood INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOW TO LIVE MY LIFE if I should die. Use resistance as formaldehyde. Refuse to accept the fact of...

Clay

First featured in the Doubleback Review Clay When we played all those blue games near the highway, Mom didn’t stop us at first, though...

Love in the Injustice Age

First featured in the Gyroscope Review Love In The Injustice Age (published in the Fall Issue of Shantih Journal [Oct. 6, 2018]) is when...

With the Wash On Our Hip

First Published in Moist Poetry Journal With the Wash on Our Hip We are bigger when we’re born, but the past is not a prologue. When we...

Healing is So Small

First Published in Moist Poetry Journal Healing is So Small The ocean is a seed on a low, coughing land and what does that mean what does...

"Gaffes Will Be The Glory", "And You Are Free"

First Published in Roi Fientantor Gaffes Will Be The Glory To err is human, to something is divine. I could Google it. But I have a...

The Rollicking Crowd is Holy

First published with Ancient Paths One has deep-set fear like her mothers. One carries the dreams and lashes of his fathers. My ankles...

Oh. There is No Going Back

Originally Published in the Bacopa Literary Review "Oh. There Is No Going Back" came to me in an instant, nearly whole, on the day in...