Poetry (non-haiku)

Poems & Publications

(Some older links may be expired. Alternate links available.)

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Thistle Do Nicely (ekphrastic haiku paired with my photo, Thistle) — The Rush Magazine (Mt. St. Mary's University, LA, CA), Issue 14, 2025. TBA

Flow — The Shallot: Journal of Mental Health, Art & Literature, "The Elements" issue, Spring 2025. TBA

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Jesus in Drag — Northern New England Review (Franklin Pierce U., NH), "Wicked" theme, March 2025.

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Jesus Fishing — Wingless Dreamer Publisher (Mumbai, India), "Awakening Within" contest,

February 2025.

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Jesus at my Birthday, and God on TV — LitBop: Art & Literature in the Groove (Chicago, IL), Volume 1, Issue 4, March 2025.

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To My Wife, Asleep In Bed — WayWords Literary Journal / The Writers Workout (Columbia, KY), "Kindness" Issue 17, February 2025.

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Joseph — Blue Crystal Lit (UK), "Christmas Rings" contest, awarded 5th place, Issue 14, January 2025.

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All Over Sylvia — Libre Lit (Pearl, MS), Issue 2, "Plath" theme, December 2024.

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Rose Bowl Parade — Instant Noodles / Current Words Publishing LLC (CA), Volume 4, Issue 3, “Holiday Noods” theme, December 2024. Read Online or View Screenshot

Mother Touring Paris (ekphrastic) — Sea to Sky Review (BC, Canada), Issue 2, Volume 5, November, 2024. Read Online or View Screenshot

Jesus in College — Wingless Dreamer Publisher (Mumbai, India),"Midnight Masquerade" anthology, November 2024.

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Deportment — Witcraft (South AUS), September 2024. Read Online or View Screenshot

Owl — The Raven Review (Harker Heights, TX), Summer issue, Volume 5, Issue 3, July 2024.

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Wendell — WayWords Literary Journal / The Writers Workout (Columbia, KY), Issue 15, "Nostalgia," July 2024.

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God at the Ballpark — The Twin Bill (Troy, MI), “All Star Game” anthology, Issue 16, July 2024.

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He Was a Soldier — Heron Clan issue XI (Chapel Hill, NC), June 2024. Print version only available from Katherine James books. View Snapshot

Imagine Space — Nat 1 Publishing LLC (Auburn, ME), “Not Enough Space” anthology, June 2024.

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Eulogy for Mikey — longlisted (but not published) in the Black Fox Literary Magazine “Rhapsody of Regret” contest, Issue 26, March 2024.

Online and print mention HERE

The Furies — The Letters Home Collection, (Utah) "Shatter the Windows" Issue 1, March 2024.

[ $$ ] Print or digital version available for purchase at LULU.

Drowned in Nineteen Over Thirty — San Antonio Review, February 2024.

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Mark — San Antonio Review, February 2024. Read Online or View Screenshot

Them, and Cheat — BarBar Literary Magazine (Lexington, KY), Volume II, “I probably shouldn’t tell you this” anthology, December 2023.

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Extinction — WayWords Literary Journal / The Writers Workout (Columbia, KY), Issue 12, “Nightmares” October 2023.

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First Day of Spring — Wingless Dreamer Publisher (Mumbai, India), “Symphony of Seasons” contest, Volume 2, Issue 2, September 2023.

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Here To Tell You, Sorry, and The Muse — Trash Wonderland, Issue 2, “Don’t Talk to Me” theme, July 2023. Scroll way down to Read Online or View "Here to tell You" Screenshot,

View "Sorry" Screenshot,

View "The Muse" Screenshot

[ $ ] Print version only available for purchase at Etsy

Bananas — Nat1 Publishing LLC’s The Skewies: An Award Anthology (Auburn, ME), June 2023.

“Bukowski” category honorable mention. Page 40. Read Online or View Screenshot

Drought — Garfield Lake Review (U. of Olivet, MI), "Atmosphere" issue, May 2023.

Read PDF Online page 65, or Download PDF

Play — WayWords Literary Journal / The Writers Workout (Columbia, KY), "Sandbox" Issue 10, April 2023.

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Frank O’Hara Gets Dirty in Bull City — Salvation South (Clarkston, GA), March 2023. Paired with my Lucky Strike smokestack photo. Read Online or View Screenshot

Also a finalist in the NC Poetry Society’s annual Pinesong Awards in the "Poet Laureate" category, May 2020.

God Poem — Molecule Tiny Lit Mag (Salem, MA), Issue 8, Spring 2023, page 46.

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Once (limerick) — Grand Little Things, February 2023. Read Online or View Screenshot

Something_diff — Troublemaker Firestarter (Riverside, NJ), Volume 3, Winter/early 2023.

[ $ ] Print version only available for purchase HERE

Poker Voice — The Shallot: Journal of Mental Health, Art & Literature, Volume 1, Issue 2, December 2022. Read ISSUU Online, page 13.

Veterans Day — As You Were: Military Experience & the Arts (Morgantown, WV), Issue 17, November 2022. Read Online or View Screenshot

AIR — Quibble Magazine (Richmond, VA), Issue 3, “Level” theme, July 2022.

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Good Boys — Another Chicago Magazine, “Rituals” issue, Summer 2022. Paired with my photo Rocky. Read Online or View Screenshot

Husbandry — Hotpoet’s Equinox (Houston, TX), “In Our Back Yard” theme. Volume 2, p. 31, Spring 2022. Read Online or View Screenshot

After the D&C — Wingless Dreamer Publisher (Mumbai, India), December 2021 print anthology “Snowflakes and Mistletoes” contest finalist.

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The Must — Fauxmoir (Knoxville, TN), Issue 1, Winter 2021. Read Online or View Screenshot

An Open Exchange, and 2 haiku (Visitation, Mirror) — Quillkeepers Press, October 2021, “Bare Bones” Spooktacular Halloween anthology.

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The Lesson — Tiny Seed Literary Journal blog and anthology September 2021.

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Aylesford time, Thinking of you, I don’t know, One time, Win — In Parentheses, April 2021.

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Quarantine Chicken Dance — Moonstone Arts Center (Philadelphia, PA), “Love & the Pandemic” anthology, March 2021.

[ $ ] Print version available for purchase HERE

Wiseness, and Listen — Iris Literary Journal by Assure Press (Cedar Hill, TX), Volume 1, “Wisdom”

Issue 4, 2020.

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The Last Hunt — Tiny Seed Literary Journal, “Lessons from the Wild” Issue, December 2020.

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Little Ditty — HASH Journal (Berkeley, CA), December 2020. [Site Retired]

Shhh — Snapdragon: Journal of Art & Healing (Winston-Salem, NC), December 2020.

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Blue Milk — Tiny Seed Literary Journal, “Where is Your Wild” issue, October 23, 2020.

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Same Script — Austin International Poetry Festival (AIPF) digital online anthology of Coronavirus poetry, 2020. Scroll down to “Poet 16” to Read Online or View Screenshot

A Thought for Mother — The Silent World in Her Vase, online only, in honor of Parent’s Day, July 2020. [Site Retired]

To the poet, reading — Rue Scribe / Underwood Press (Phoenix, AZ), July 2020.

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Equinox — Tiny Seed Literary Journal, “Hindsight In 2020” project, April 2020.

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Go — Willowdown books, Anthology of Poems From the Lockdown, April 2020.

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Well so what?, and From the convicted to his accusers, Barzakh (Albany, NY), Spring 2020. (SUNY Albany). Incarceration Poems. Read Online or View Screenshot

Down at the Irish Pub — Dash (Cal St. Fullerton), 13th Edition, 2020.

Print and online copies unavailable. View Snapshot

Nam, Man — Pinesong 2020, WINNER of “Courage” category in the NC Poetry Society’s annual anthology of awards. Also nominated for a PUSHCART 2021 prize.

Read PDF Online page 39, or Download PDF

Broken — New Southern Fugitives, by Southern Fried Karma, March 2020, Volume 3, Issue 8, March 2020. [Site Retired]

Poem originally based on image from Rattle magazine’s ekphrastic challenge, February 2019. More Info

On American Avenue — San Pedro River Review (AZ), February 2020, “American South” Issue.

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Burning bed — 2019 NC Poetry Society’s Poetry In Plain Sight poster contest, November 2019. Posters placed in several public locations & businesses throughout NC. More Info

Teaching Nobody, and Teachers — Montana Mouthful, September 2019, “Schooling” issue.

Read ISSUU Online, page 31.

Welcome to a Rock — Tiny Seed Literary Journal, March 2019.

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Older Published Poems:

Panacea — The Plastic Tower, May 1990. Publisher most likely OOB, status unknown.

Back — Amelia, 1990. Publisher most likely OOB, status unknown.

I’ve Been Thinking — The Dominion Review (formerly Old Dominion U; now Barely South Review) Spring 1990.

Reprinted in Heron Clan, issue IX, 2022. View Snapshot

Slone Hill — Calypso, Volume 2, 1990. Publisher most likely OOB, status unknown.

The Breeding — Context South, 1990-91. Publisher most likely OOB, status unknown.

Invasion of Privacy — Thema (Metairie, LA), Summer 1990, “The Last Time I Saw Jane” Issue. More Info

Miscellaneous poems forgotten to time published in several University of Kentucky publications, 1975-1980: Labyrinth (UK literary magazine), Fabbro (UK literary magazine), The Wandering Foot (UK literary magazine), Jar (UK honors program), The Kentuckian (UK student magazine).