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If Not the River
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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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I Hear Them Bleeding Hope
published in The Blue Nib Literary Magazine
Being buried in a crate with just
enough space between
the slats
for damp earth
to trickle in on me
at a tortuously hideous crawl
used to be my first worst way
to die
alone in the loam
while a grimy
suffocation
claimed my breath.
Captured by a blaze
ignited unaware
with every nerve ending
scorched
charred
by a merciless murderer
ashing me utterly
completely reducing me
to my smallest parts
consummation by fire
used to be my second worst
way to die.
My third worst way
to lose myself
used to be
drowning in one
enormous desperate
gasp for oxygen
before submitting
to eternal bloat.
But then I
learned about
these people who are left to
crumble
growing shattery at the mercy of
endless ennui
half wound down
confined to a box within a box within a box
stagnant with
mortality
relinquished
discarded
in the dim.
I hear them bleeding hope
in the Old Folks Rest Home
where we go
on the last Thursday of every month
jilted
extinguished
left to haunt airless hallways
curdled thick by anguish
abandonment
fairly begging for the exit
through motionless
decomposition.
This is my new
worst way
to die.
If Not the River
About
Something You Don't Know Yet - Chapbook with ShabdAaweg Press
Buy Chapbook Something You Don't Know Yet at ShabdAaweg Press
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Pics
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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