• “The Sobbing Axe” Wyvern Lit

Two rabbits like bad children hide in a hollow log.

• “Tsunami” Devil’s Lake 

All bodies transform // to water and rubble / when confronted with water and rubble.

• “In Every Word a Wardrobe” Superstition Review

If you’ve been devastated by the body, yours or another, then I am with you. I grieve

• “An Accent Like Grief” PANK

How quickly the language we dreamt in becomes the language we no longer use

• “In Which Several Creatures Debate the Nature of Heaven” Letters

Abandon the old altars. Leave heaven in ruins

• “On One Hand Hillsides and Houses” Rougarou

His drinking is a kind of peace / the way a pacemaker is a kind of heart

• “Mesrobians Go Thrifting” Sundog Lit

In other words we sift through the sad lives / of the tasteless, their grotesque // paintings of bald eagles and motorcycles

 “This Body Which is Water We Call Home” Waccamaw

Often I mistake / the ocean for our home. // Systole, diastole, synonymous / with ebb and flow

• “Elegy/Echo” Vinyl

From her / this world, / this mangled sentence

• “Yours, Alex” Country Dog Review

Leaves discolor / because of what // trees are asked / to hold overnight

• “Nijinsky” Superstition Review

Who watches burlesque for the dancer’s technique // and not the revelation of body

• “Dog Bones” Superstition Review

That’s what you do / when the unexpected happens. // You embrace it; you move on

• “Sequel” Superstition Review

this sequel // ends the way all things end — it ends

• “Rituals of Comfort” Stickman Review

We coil around two conversations: / one a rattlesnake, another a licorice wheel

• “Alterations” 42opus

foam // overwhelmed by the water / of its creation