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Mouthful of Storm- Wild Roof Journal/lyrical prose
This Blood Is Beautiful-Wishbone Words/CNF
No One Writes About Agnes-The Red Fez Literary Magazine/CNF
Mine-Hearth & Coffin/CNF
The Elephants Only I Can See-TMP Magazine, Lyrical Prose
Dust-Miniskirt Magazine/CNF
The Woman With Mice-Misery Tourism/Fiction
How to Wake Up Feeling Dangerous-Anti Heroin Chic Magazine/Poetry
Bone World-Prometheus Dreaming/lyrical prose
I Know a Wall When I See One - Tangled Locks Journal/CNF
Animal Instinct- Pangyrus Literary Magazine/CNF
Tick-HerStry/CNF
Handler-Anti-Heroine Chic Magazine/CNF
When the East Wind Comes-Months to Years Literary Journal/CNF
The Man with the Round Tomatoes in the Square Baskets-Prometheus Dreaming/CNF
Pandemically Yours
Chariotless God-Kalopsia Literary Journal/CNF
The Dead Are Holding Something Back-Prometheus Dreaming/CNF
The Carving Tree-Write Launch Literary Magazine/poetry
Along Third Street-Impspired Literary Magazine/poetry
Me Going Gone-Impspired Literary Magazine/poetry
For Grief and For Ironing-The Feminine Collective/lyrical prose
When the New People Came-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
At the Mercy of my Own Forgetting-Write Launch Literary Magazine/poetry
The Rent I Pay-Write Launch Literary Magazine/poetry
By the Dead Purple Lady-The Write Launch Literary Magazine/poetry
Unbearably Gone-The Write Launch Literary Magazine/poetry
Evidence of a Struggle-The Write Launch Literary Magazine/poetry
Your Phone Call-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
Sylvie of the Stone Stoop-Intermission/poetry
Charlie's Assessment-Intermission/poetry
Signed, Legally Ryn-Intermission/poetry
It's Been Raining-Intermission/poetry
Fingerprint Failure-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
Bolstered by the Flask-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
I Hear Them Bleeding Hope-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
I'm Partial-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
Inside Out Pain-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
Probably Confabulations-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine-poetry
Revenant Gloam-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
Lies Heavy-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
Mark of the Empty-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
Barely Aloof-Poet's Haven Digest Anthology, The Distance Between Insanity and Genius/poetry
Fata Morgana-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
Time Will Spend Us-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
I Cannot Make Permanent Things-The Write Launch Literary Magazine/poetry
A Silence Necessary-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
Tidally Locked-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
Blue, I Think-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
Revenant Gloam-The Write Launch Literary Magazine/poetry
Swiftly Flying Shadow Bands-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
Apostle of Disbelief-Poet's Haven Digest, It Was a Dark and Stormy Night AnthologPublished in The Poet’s Haven Digest Anthology, Strange Land and in The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
A Measurable Objective-Impspired Literary Magazine/poetry
Cacti Toucher-Impspired Literary Magazine/poetry
Mean Free Path-Impspired Literary Magazine/poetry
I am a Bridge-Impspired Literary Magazine/poetry
A Gurney for Me-The Feminine Collective/poetry
Just the Other Stuff-The Feminine Collective/poetry
A Valid Exit-Impspired Literary Magazine/poetryu
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How to Wake Up Feeling Dangerous
Published in Anti-Heroin Chic Magazine February 5, 2022
Poetry
How to Wake Up Feeling Dangerous
In a clearing in the woods
make a bed with moss for your head.
Breathe in the willow leaves.
Blacken your eyes, silence your ears,
nevermind the red.
That’s just the loss.
In the dark you won’t notice it.
Before you lie down to the banging
of your arrhythmia begging,
do you see me?
sip from the creek nearby
and tend to your tremors
right there on the rocks
then lift your eyes to behold
a sky filled with wail and thirst
and tell the world your skin is my skin
and the body breathes when it breathes
and not a second before.
Drape yourself in the moon for warmth
and feel the planets calling out to you
saying,
nothingness is not something
you can fall into.
Don’t be slumped at some altar
talking to things with wings
like you are of their flock.
Walk on the grave of the times you would
have done anything
for a god.
Dance across the roots of the tree
with the branches of dissonance
and scatter in powdered form
the sorcery that told you to repent for
everything and nothing at all.
Fail to pluck out your heart and
say,
take this, please.
Forget that nothing would have made you
happier than to give a god your heart
even though he would absolutely have said
Yes, well, not yours. Not your heart.
See that
the ground is simply part of the planet on
which we live and that our planet
isn’t grounded on anything
at all. Continue to gather your bits of
dirt and dust and matter each growing in influence.
Discard the old and useless unimpeachable principles
that you occasionally dig up.
Move freely through space
orbiting your sun.
Now lie in the wild and dirty night
with worlds staring back at you
and leave a trail of yourself behind
in cardiac read outs and love.
When you wake up
scream in the face
of the lion you were caged with
just one more time
for good measure.
Maybe it will echo everywhere.
If Not the River
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Something You Don't Know Yet - Chapbook with ShabdAaweg Press
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Mouthful of Storm- Wild Roof Journal/lyrical prose
This Blood Is Beautiful-Wishbone Words/CNF
No One Writes About Agnes-The Red Fez Literary Magazine/CNF
Mine-Hearth & Coffin/CNF
The Elephants Only I Can See-TMP Magazine, Lyrical Prose
Dust-Miniskirt Magazine/CNF
The Woman With Mice-Misery Tourism/Fiction
How to Wake Up Feeling Dangerous-Anti Heroin Chic Magazine/Poetry
Bone World-Prometheus Dreaming/lyrical prose
I Know a Wall When I See One - Tangled Locks Journal/CNF
Animal Instinct- Pangyrus Literary Magazine/CNF
Tick-HerStry/CNF
Handler-Anti-Heroine Chic Magazine/CNF
When the East Wind Comes-Months to Years Literary Journal/CNF
The Man with the Round Tomatoes in the Square Baskets-Prometheus Dreaming/CNF
Pandemically Yours
Chariotless God-Kalopsia Literary Journal/CNF
The Dead Are Holding Something Back-Prometheus Dreaming/CNF
The Carving Tree-Write Launch Literary Magazine/poetry
Along Third Street-Impspired Literary Magazine/poetry
Me Going Gone-Impspired Literary Magazine/poetry
For Grief and For Ironing-The Feminine Collective/lyrical prose
When the New People Came-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
At the Mercy of my Own Forgetting-Write Launch Literary Magazine/poetry
The Rent I Pay-Write Launch Literary Magazine/poetry
By the Dead Purple Lady-The Write Launch Literary Magazine/poetry
Unbearably Gone-The Write Launch Literary Magazine/poetry
Evidence of a Struggle-The Write Launch Literary Magazine/poetry
Your Phone Call-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
Sylvie of the Stone Stoop-Intermission/poetry
Charlie's Assessment-Intermission/poetry
Signed, Legally Ryn-Intermission/poetry
It's Been Raining-Intermission/poetry
Fingerprint Failure-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
Bolstered by the Flask-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
I Hear Them Bleeding Hope-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
I'm Partial-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
Inside Out Pain-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
Probably Confabulations-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine-poetry
Revenant Gloam-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
Lies Heavy-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
Mark of the Empty-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
Barely Aloof-Poet's Haven Digest Anthology, The Distance Between Insanity and Genius/poetry
Fata Morgana-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
Time Will Spend Us-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
I Cannot Make Permanent Things-The Write Launch Literary Magazine/poetry
A Silence Necessary-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
Tidally Locked-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
Blue, I Think-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
Revenant Gloam-The Write Launch Literary Magazine/poetry
Swiftly Flying Shadow Bands-The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
Apostle of Disbelief-Poet's Haven Digest, It Was a Dark and Stormy Night AnthologPublished in The Poet’s Haven Digest Anthology, Strange Land and in The Blue Nib Literary Magazine/poetry
A Measurable Objective-Impspired Literary Magazine/poetry
Cacti Toucher-Impspired Literary Magazine/poetry
Mean Free Path-Impspired Literary Magazine/poetry
I am a Bridge-Impspired Literary Magazine/poetry
A Gurney for Me-The Feminine Collective/poetry
Just the Other Stuff-The Feminine Collective/poetry
A Valid Exit-Impspired Literary Magazine/poetryu
Everything Hard is Tangled-Impspired Literary Magazine/poetry
On Zillow-Impspired Literary Magazine/poetry
Out by the Shed-Impspired Literary Magazine/poetry
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