Poetry

June 2025 -- All the Wayward Angels -- Small Wonders

December 2024 -- The snarling stars -- On Spec:  The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic

March 2023 -- The prophecy unswaddled (reprint) -- Flipped Mitten Press (print or PDF)

March 2023 -- Vessels of the State (reprint) -- Flipped Mitten Press (print or PDF)

October 2023 -- At starbreak -- Eye to the Telescope, Issue 50

October 2023 -- Thread Remedy -- Apparition Lit, Issue 24

October 2023 -- Five billion rutabagas -- Bending Genres

August 2023 -- If I must be armed -- Unlikely Stories

July 2023 -- The slaughtering flood -- Star*Line 46.3

February 2023 -- The prophecy unswaddled -- HAD

February 2023 -- Power Dome -- The Rumpus

December 2022 -- Here -- Wizards in Space

December 2022 -- Prolapse -- Writers Resist

November 2022 -- In Which I Inherit My Father's Tendency to Minimize -- Typehouse Literary Magazine

October 2022 -- "Abortion Sonnet," "Rage Sonnet #12," and "When thistles war" -- Bourgeon Online

July 2022 -- The Snowy Owl -- Heavy Feather Review

May 2022 -- Because -- Moving Words Arlington

Fall 2021 -- In the City of Feasting Banshees -- Star*Line, Volume 44, Issue 4

May 2021 -- We have always lived in the castle -- The Metaworker

February 2021 -- Lamentations for the dead in a barbaric land -- This is What America Looks Like

November 2020 -- Because -- The Sunlight Press (Pushcart and Best of the Net nomination)

October 2020 -- Why I couldn't sleep until morning -- Beltway Poetry Quarterly

May 2020 -- Acceptable Risk -- Heavy Feather Review

February 2020 -- Bin ich dein Neger -- Booth (Pushcart nomination; 2nd place, Alternating Current Luminaire Prize 2004)

December 2019 -- Love and Multiple Sclerosis -- Winner, 2019 Better than Starbucks Sonnet Contest (Pushcart nomination)

December 2019 -- Nothing Ghost Can Stay and The Scarecrow -- Star*Line (Pushcart nomination)

November 2019 -- The Leg -- Anti-Heroin Chic

October 2019 -- The Gilded Cross -- Parody Poetry Journal

October 2019 -- Whenas undead my Julia goes -- Parody Poetry Journal

October 2019 -- Ghost Tree -- Heavy Feather Review

October 2019 -- I plodded lonely as a cloud -- Parody Poetry Journal

September 2019 -- Buzz Drunk -- Okay Donkey (Best of the Net nomination)

September 2019 -- Dad, 1948 -- Bacopa Literary Review

July 2019 -- Sonnet for Ella Watson -- Rigorous

May 2019 -- Vessels of the State -- Poets Reading the News

December 2018 -- Chatroom -- Quatrain Fish

December 2018 -- The Fish -- Bending Genres (video here)

October 2018 -- Goddammit, you gotta vote because -- Writers Resist

October 2018 -- In the New Republic -- Poets Reading the News

August 2018 -- Four-Cent Father -- Poets Reading the News (Pushcart nomination)

August 2018 -- Active 3-D printer situation -- Writers Resist

July 2018 -- 42,000 Matches -- Litbreak

June 2018 -- Shut up and dribble -- Heavy Feather Review #NoMorePresidents

June 2018 -- Undead sonnet 130 -- 2018 Rhyme On Adult Poetry Writing Contest (1st Prize Humorous Poem category)

May 2018 -- The Meadow -- Poets Reading the News

April 2018 -- After the Pedestal -- Quail Bell Magazine

January 2018 -- In contradiction to the commander's standards and wishes -- Poets Reading the News

November 2017 -- The birds are stealing my dreams -- Jersey Devil Press

September 2017 -- The reek of history -- FIVE:2:ONE

August 2017 -- The trouble with pronouns -- KYSO Flash (reprint) 

July 2017 -- Cauliflower -- Rigorous

May 2017 -- Showerbeer -- Quail Bell Magazine

March 2017 -- Freedom Bras -- District Lit

November 2016 -- American Beast -- Heavy Feather Review

November 2016 -- Breakfast of Champions/Mt. Pleasant Haiku/Park Road Painted Lady -- Queen Mob's Teahouse

September 2016 -- How to Feel Like a Hero -- Here Comes Everyone, Transition Issue

July 2016 -- Chatroom (or Untitled) -- Mt. Pleasant Poetry Project Collection

July 2016 -- When Peanut Butter Baby Ruled The World -- Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry 

May 2016 -- Rendezvous at hills like white elephants -- Peregrine Journal, Volume XXX (30th Anniversary Edition)

March 2016 -- The Trouble with Pronouns -- For Harriet/Shine

September 2015 -- Had I the Type of Mind to Understand -- Page & Spine

November 2015 -- How long have I had these flowers? -- London Journal of Fiction