Selected Poetry

I was shocked to see / beyond what I could touch, what I liked / so much, to the little twist, one source / of your pain.

• “When Your Backache Returns,” Bellevue Literary Review, Issue 48 — Spring 2025

So you, if you haven’t given me / much thought, have the clearer picture.

• “Eyewitness Testimony,” Packingtown Review, Volume 23 — Spring 2025

  This is a train with / cars: cigarette at the dining car

• “La Belle Époque,” Bicoastal Review, Issue 8 — Winter 2024/2025 (audio)

Hummingbirds // interrogate the feeder—a buzz / like bullets passes the ear.

• “You Can’t Separate Absence from Presence by Distance Alone,” The Shore, Issue 24 — Winter 2024

Like coming upon the cliff's edge, / shocked by the height, having never / seemed to have climbed

• “Excerpts from a Calendar of Nights We Didn’t Meet (#1)” Permafrost, Issue 45.2 — Winter 2024

Day broke, bankrupt, brought / only hints of morning, blue // and lunar through the / curtains.

• “Night Without,” Copper Nickel, Issue 13 — Winter 2010

Turning spears and arrows into sparrows / and setting them loose inside / the mirrored walls of the city’s / unerring ears.

• “Meditation on East Jarvis,” The Journal, Issue 33.1 — Spring/Summer 2009

It begins like sin / in the slow backwater and pools

• “Ice Forms on the Milwaukee River,” Boulevard, Volume 21.1 — Fall 2006