Poems (mostly)

Train Tracks, Marshlands

2025

2024

  • “Advice to America’s Lovelorn from the Journal of Consumer Research,” Calliope Winter 2024 Issue 182, pp. 35, 38.
  • “That January” and “Earth Science,” The Hole in the Head Review, V. 5, No. 2. , May 2024.
  • “Mining Mary Ellen,” Book of Matches, Issue 11, Spring 2024, pp. 11-12. Available here.
  • “They Feed on What Depresses Her,” The Lyric, V. 104 (Spring 2024), p. 55.
  • “In the Backyard,” Green Hills Literary Lantern, XXXV (2024).
  • “Ode to the Mortician’s Good Intentions,” Ballast, Issue 2.3, Summer 2024.
  • “Ode to the Welsh Tidy Mouse,” The Indianapolis Review, Issue 29, Summer 2024.
  • “The Names of Birds,” As It Ought to Be, August 21, 2024.
  • “Danger, Keep Off!” I-70 Review, Issue 18, 2024, p. 150.
  • “Swans Unmuted: Their Journey to the Moon” [flash fiction] Willow Springs Fall 2024, Issue 94, pp. 42-43.
  • Lament for the Lost,” “Intruder,” and “Role Models,” BlazeVox, Fall 2024.
  • “Cento on the Fifth Anniversary of My Mother’s Death,” Sugar House Review, Winter 2024 Vol. 29, pp. 10-11.

2023

  • The Land of Not Enough,” Plainsongs, 43:1, Winter 2023, p. 91.
  • “Estate Sale,” The Southern Review, vol. 59 no. 1, January 2023, p. 23. Available at Project MUSE.
  • “Vertigo,” Cider Press Review, vol. 24. no. 6, February 2023
  • “Aging in Place,” The Madrigal, volume vii: metamorphosis, February 2023
  • “Transitions,” Halfway Down the Stairs, Strange Bedfellows issue, March 1, 2023
  • “The Archivist’s Dilemma,” Young Ravens Literary Review, June 2023, p. 87.
  • “Postponing the Ceremony,” Blood Tree Literature, Issue 13, June 2023.
  • “Fever with Table Grapes,” La Piccioletta Barca, July 17, 2023.
  • “Home Health Support,” Ibbetson Street Magazine, #53, July 2023.
  • “On the Mountain: Apparition, 1997,” Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, vol. 26 (2023), p. 5.
  • Snow Job,” “Nashville, 1994, and “The wife was wood, and out o’ her wit,” FRIGG, Issue 62, Fall/Winter 2023/24.
  • “Lake of the Isles, March 2017,” The Orchards Poetry Journal, Winter 2023, p. 164. Available here.
  • “The Woman Who Had No Shadow,” Poetry South, 2023, p. 30. Republished on January 5, 2024 by Verse Daily.

2022

  • “Tradeoffs,” Burningwood Literary Journal, Issue 102, April 2022, p. 48.
  • “What doesn’t belong in the neighbor’s pool,” Tilted House, April 22, 2022.
  • “Lenses,” The Avalon Literary Review, Spring 2022, p. 23.
  • “Bodie Bride,” “Keweenaw Elegy,” and “The Gardener’s Burial Mass,” Night Picnic Vol. 5, No. 2, June 2022. “Bodie Bride” nominated for the 2022 Pushcart Prize.
  • “The Brownie: their young ghosts drawn through the keyhole window,” Paterson Literary Review Vol. 50, 2022, pp. 246-247.
  • “Dissolvent,” Flint Hills Review, Issue 27, 2022, page 27.
  • “How to Stop Dreaming,” “Mascots,” and “Holy Family,” Flights 2022, pp. 76-79.
  • “In the Cellar” and “Off Sand Cliff Road,” Floyd County Moonshine 14.2: Fall 2022, pp. 29-30 and 115-16.
  • “My father visits me in Minneapolis for the first time in twenty years and asks me to explain things to him,” Arkana, Issue 13, 2022.

2021

  • “Credo for a Pandemic,” Tiny Seed Literary Journal, January 6, 2021.
  • “Morning Coffee,” “Hain’t,” “After Turtle Lake,” and “Mackeral Sky,” Sixfold, Winter 2020 Poetry prize.
  • “Invocation” and “Foreclosing on the Garden,” BoomerLit, Vol VI, No. 1-2021. Both poems nominated for the 2021 Pushcart Prize. “Foreclosing on the Garden,” reprinted in Artemis, Volume XXVIII, 2021, p. 75.
  • “My mother in the bardo she does not believe in,” Bearings Online, August 25, 2021.
  • “Catastrophe,” Whistling Shade Literary Journal, 2021, p. 19. Shortlisted for the Better than Starbucks Sonnet contest.
  • “Profile,” Permafrost 43:1 (2021), p 73.
  • “Hummingbirds and Unicorns” and “In Which No Creature Dies,” Nixes Mate, Issue 21/22, Climate Change.

2020

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