Poems, Fiction, and Essays

 

Adanna Literary Journal - Issue #12, Fall 2022

Take Your Shoes Off

The pebbles feel good.

The minnows kiss your knees.

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kerning — Toad Hall Press — June 2022

How to Hide from Your Family

The surest way to hide from your family during Easter brunch is to eat a single bite of asparagus. (order to read more)

 

WAIT: Poems from the Pandemic — Littoral Press — 2021

Symptomatic

Replace a t with an h, and it becomes

symphomatic, as in the Boston Symph-o-matic

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Multiplicity - Oct 2020

Don’t Live Past Ninety, Dear

What do you say to a 93-year-old woman who just wants out of her body? (read more)

 

Stonecoast Review - Winter 2021

The Shame Files

I never got the rape kit. I didn’t see the point—no bruises, no scratches. What would they be looking for, my missing courage? (order to read more)


Hole in the Head Review - Summer 2020

East Troy Street

How many dreams tumbled

from his lips

like lotto tickets from his glove box?

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Hole in the Head Review - Summer 2020

She Writes the Kama Sutra (an erasure poem)

She

is

a

household Goddess.

Try to stop her!

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FEM (Fuck ‘Em) - 2019

Canine Removal

The orthodontist made me a new dead fox—a curving row of white round rectangles, miniature fluorescent lights for my mouth. (order to read more)

 

Balancing Act 2 - Littoral Press - 2018

Never Fall in Love with a Housemate

Oh, it won’t be a problem,

the boys,

so young,

so free.

They never take the compost out.

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