Poems

Selected online poems —please note that most of these poems have gone through revisions and the book versions are now often shorter, some with different titles.

From The Owl was a Baker’s Daughter (The Center for Literary Publishing, 2018)

The Adroit Journal“Because a Matryoshka Doll Is a Nest Made of Eggs”

Cider Press Review“Not the Notebook but Those Better Blessed”

Diode“Flowers for the Executioner,” “Clouds Guess the Moon’s Retort” and “Ear, Ear, Unasked”

The Journal“They Break Open in Sun but Stay Dark”

Linebreak“If Wings Neither Waxed nor Waned”

Luna Luna“Memory of Sin,” “Something Wet and Floaty and Once,” “Because Bark Is Neither Boat nor a Hearkening” and “Unwriting the Sentence”

Moledro Magazine: “Never Disparage a Moon-Girl” and reprints of “Beech, Birch, Buckthorn” (Carolina Quarterlyand “When World Is Whale” (Ecotone)

Phoebe“Moon Girls of the Medicine Birds”

Stirring“Ophelia Dreams of Sea Urchins”

Thrush Poetry Journal: “Song of Languor”

Tupelo QuarterlyTo Limn a Limbed Thing” and “Faint Stars of Dread” (also two poems from a new manuscript on Iceland)

From My Dim Aviary (Black Lawrence Press, 2016)

Boxcar Poetry Review: “Lettre”

Calyx: “Interdit” (audio version only)

Front Porch Journal: “Poupee”

[PANK]: “Amie” and “Chemin de Fer” (plus four other poems not included in the book)

The Paris-American: “Nocturne”

From Spirits of the Humid Cloud (dancing girl press, 2012)

wicked alice: “Spirits of the Humid Cloud”

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