On The Line, Place of Stones, Anxious Prayer | Issue 11 | September 2022 — I am excited to announce that I have three poems appearing in Issue #11 of The Banyan Review. I hope you stop over and give them a read along with all the other poets. The three poems published there are: On The Line Written as a nihilistic meditation during the pandemic about the…

Negative Land | Issue 16 | September 2022 — I am honored to have my poem Negative Land published in Issue 16 of Wild Roof Journal! Please check out the issue! About the Poem Negative Land is a poem that sprung from a free-write exercise during a Sabrina Benaim workshop I took through Button Poetry University in April 2022. We did an…

I had to build my own origin stories — “From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it’s different. Consider again that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.” - Carl Sagan I would venture to the moon and back to look at the earth from far away, this pale…

Why they fight I have no idea — Each morning, my world sounds the same — bird call and bus engine, distant highway drone, air brake, leaf blower, delivery truck backup beep, dog bark, baby cry, a kitchen clatter of lunch packing, blackbirds that fight over mulberries. Why they fight I have no idea — the tree is…

Each ferry is a popped balloon — 1 A couple in striped shirts stares across the sand. I can’t tell if they are married or deep in revolution. Children bury their eyes in beach book pages. The sun off the water is a bonfire extinguished in the wake of each rich yacht that disobeys the signs. 2 Sand…