Published Work
Falling
Fireball Roberts
Ring of Gyges
Live Encounters American Poets & Writers January 2022
Drowning
Family Dinner: A Metaphysical Check-In
Escape and Loss
Eyes of the Dead
Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Issue 21:3, Summer 2020
A Twenty-Four-Year-Old Getting Two Dozen Roses at Forty-Nine: A Dialogue with Myself
Life Care Planning
- Fledgling Rag, Issue 20, Spring 2020
"All the proceeds from the sale of Fledgling Rag go directly to the Lancaster Cleft Palate Clinic."
Directions for purchase can be found on the website: https://www.irisgpress.org/fledgling-rag
Second Chances
A Few of My Favorite Lost Things
Unbearable Lightness
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Second Chances posted on Indran Amirthanayagam's YouTube Poetry Channel
The Enormity of It
- Mojave He[Art] Review, Issue 17, September 2019
The Enormity of It
Look to desert, rock, gila monster, the ease
of one thin layer on a hot day. Oh, but
the mirages! Maybe every beautiful boy just wants
to be a beautiful girl, protected, seduced;
to be swept…
off. Quivering words like blades of seagrass
whirl. Hard to know from where sounds come under
water. Ganymede raining down; always
the beautiful boys! Bound to Aquarius
‘though gazing far…
off. I pass along details of another Comcast
failure. Speak of missed meetups, late arrivals. Did
you hear? The things unsaid, the enormity of
it. Things not written or spoken, only perceived
in the trailing…
off. Gurgling, trickling, babbling flow of
missing and mercy can carve stone as well. But
to smash rocks to gravel in anger
is infinitely easier and better received.
Rain runs…
off. Have you tried singing under water? It’s most
fun alone, even if you dislike the company.
Self-hate and hating life are two distinct
states, but neither worth fretting. If hate fails
to kill, it burns…
off. Burdens lie in the apple seed your mother
warned would grow to a tree in your belly.
Grief, love, grace -- things that might fill a desert
sky at night; stay awake, look for Aquarius, as
Ganymede takes off.
Vacuum
Transgendered Ex at Son's Birthday Party
Oracle of the First Kiss
Published in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Issue 19:4, Fall 2018
Leaves of Late November
- Published in Nightingale and Sparrow, Issue 1, February 2019
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The Clotheshorse
Rats
- Published in The Novice Writer, Issue 1, Spring 2019
The Magnolia Review, Volume 6, Issue 1, April 2020 - 6 poems
Video from Third Thursday Poetry Series by the City of Takoma Park.
I run 29:40 - 42:55 in the midst of good company.
