Category Archives: Poetry

  Back, way back, before the birth of Henry Ford, we’d surf across rivers on the backs of crocodiles. “Avoid the mouth and you’ll be … more →

[published in the 2016 issue of J’Parle’ Literary Magazine]   It’s hard to sleep with the fish hooks tugging taut lines under the sheets, between … more →

  I heard your name before I ever saw your face The collective crush of a gang whose lips made love to your name   … more →

  I had a dream about you last night. Your jaw, specifically, and the way your earring swings back and forth in front of it … more →

  We’re coiled. Snaked up and writhing, clutching, pushing, pulling, pressing what flesh we consider safe and getting close enough to breathe one another’s breath … more →

This poem was originally published in Oklahoma State University’s Papyrus, Volume 10, in 2005.

[This poem was first published in issue 9 of The Literary Hatchet. More details HERE] In the shadowed fabric folds and flat expanses of bed you’ve … more →

  A volcano in the desert All it knows is reaching Tearful eruption Violent expression Full feeling Among quiet, shifting dunes.   The sand urges … more →