Poems
Palliative - Action, Spectacle
Another Kind of Migration - The Normal School
Vinyl Records - The Normal School
Patterns of Disruption - La Piccioletta Barca
Seafaring - The Potomac Review
A Young Girl Considers the Unknown– Barrelhouse
Inter-Species – Pinch Journal
Spinning Wheel – Pinch Journal
Hide and Seek – Broad Street
Calving – Bluestem
The Feast Is Almost Over – Zone 3
Pilgrimage – Zone 3
Hover Between – Zone 3
My Machu Picchu – The Delmarva Review
My Commander – The Delmarva Review
When the Earth Almost Died – The Delmarva Review
Invisible Energy Field – Bird’s Thumb
Epoch, a Division of Time – Apeiron Review
To Spin in Separate Orbits – Rogue Agent
Non-poisonous – Flagler Review
Cinder – Flagler Review
In the Asteroid Belt – Columbia Journal
Iconic Fossils – Columbia Journal
Goodbye Charlie – Runner-up, Editors’ Prize, Spoon River Poetry Review
From There’s Something Elemental In The Way You Say Goodbye
Sequence
Dawn turns deserts into gardens
complex mechanics like landslides
drastically altering the landscape
her chemistry changes rocks
leaving micro biotic evidence
remnants of bacteria in a specific layer
for over 2,000 years—proof
that Hannibal crossed the Alps
with 9,000 horses and 37 elephants
without language she comments
on the world her small fingers
pick a color draw a shape
like the red ochre stencils found
deep in Indonesian caves
a diffused cloud of pigment
blown through bird bones
over hands a magical whistling
a silhouette
of self-awareness
giving evidence of the dawn
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