Poetry

Flock

Published in Stoneboat, spring 2019, issue 9.2.

Those birds were metaphors, and these birds are comma splices, these birds are sonnets...

Letter to C.

Published in Antiphon, Spring 2019, issue 24. Includes a recording!

We don't recognize each other in this foreign place, the future.

This is What I Said in My Dream About You

Published in Snapdragon, Fall 2017, issue 3.3.

I don't really blame you for being dead, but you can't have your sweater back, you don't remember how cold it is up here where we breathe and cough and talk...

Poem from Exile

Published in Black Fox Literary Magazine, Summer 2017, issue 16.

The lilacs here, on this new street, are bleached, wispy things.

Library

Published in Black Fox Literary Magazine, Summer 2017, issue 16.

You are the only story I know:
once upon a collarbone

Afterwards

Published in The Cape Rock, spring 2017, volume 45, issue 1.

The words crumble away like dead leaves.

Daughter

Published in the Theories of HER anthology, Mercurial Noodle Press, December 2016.

I've got her eyes,
I stole them as my birthright.

CST

Published in the Theories of HER anthology, Mercurial Noodle Press, December 2016.

She’s always late. Carries a clock
in her tongue
that stops on initial consonants.

Transformation

Published in the March 2016 issue of the London Journal of Fiction. Reprinted, summer 2016.

There's a man who sleeps
outside the subway, who's claimed
the gap between the stairs and the newsstand.

When Flesh Is The Winding Sheet

Published in the Winter 2015 issue of Crab Fat Magazine. Nominated for the 2015 Pushcart Prize, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and Best of the Net 2016. Reprinted in Best of Year Two.

Something in the kitchen catches fire
          and a city starts to burn. That's what happens
and I'm not sorry.

Ars Medica

Published in the Autumn 2015 issue of Tule Review.

She finds a lump,
one morning in the shower,
and when the doctor tells us
it's nothing...

This Is What I Said in My Dream About You

Published in the September 2015 issue of The Gambler.

I don't really blame you for being dead, but you can't have your sweater back, you don't remember how cold it is up here where we breathe and cough and talk, so you can't have your sweater back until it stops smelling like you, like your shampoo and your kitchen and your dog...

DSM 300.4

Published in the fall 2015 issue of Pine Hills Review.

Landscape.

A place where I arrive.

Travel inwards: it stretches out—

Dysthymia

Published in the Winter/Spring 2015 issue of Lunch Ticket. Nominated for the 2015 Best of the Net Awards.

There are days I have been cast
(down) in bronze.
Gloom pervades me like patina.

Aurore

Published in the 2014 issue of paper nautilus.

Long before light has flushed
violet across my eyelids,
you rise,
press your fingertip under the point of my jawline;
I wake to lipstick
still blood-dark on my cheekbone.

Letters Home

is available under the Decolonial Media License.

There are first kisses scattered here, like the dandelions behind the chapel.

Momos

Published in the April 2014 issue of Spry. Nominated for the 2014 Best of the Net anthology.

She tells me in the only way she can,
hands me her heart,
dough pleated tidy under her fingers,
seam curved snug against my palm.

mermaid

Published in the November 2013 issue of East Jasmine Review.

There are mermaids in the Hudson. Well, mermaid, at any rate —

Cartography

Published in the April 2013 issue of Foliate Oak.

Your skin snagged on mine,
darlingest, is the appropriate distance.

Confession

Published in the April 2013 issue of Foliate Oak.

I built her skeleton in my imaginarium.

Elegy

Published in the April 2013 issue of Foliate Oak.

I have been trying to write
an elegy
for my grandfather.

Dowry

Published in the Fall 2012 issue of Theodate.

I tell you
I am searching for poetry
for you. That I have not found it.
That I am horribly, horribly afraid that I will have to write it.

View From a City

Published in the March 2012 issue of Bluestem Quarterly.

We make our own stars, these days —
we have to.