Two Pink Poems in Doubleback Review

“Pink Light” and “Pink Light (2021)” look like poems about romance, and they are, in a way. But they’re also—and possibly more deeply—about self-love. About valuing your own heart enough to protect it. 

Both poems have just been republished in Doubleback Review. 

Another Kitchen Fire, Or The Same One, Again

Just in time for the holidays, my Christmas/fire poem is out in Day Eight's beautiful anthology THE GREAT WORLD OF DAYS. (I have a bad habit of starting fires on holidays—probably because that's when I'm most likely to be in the kitchen.)

Read the poem here, and get your copy of THE GREAT WORLD OF DAYS here.

The Squid Returns

painting by Katie Schuler

My old squid poem "Watasenia Scintillans Addresses the New Graduates" is up today at The Last Word on Nothing. Don't miss the audio, with wonderful music and sound design by Grant Balfour. You can read and listen here. 

Another New-Old Poem at LWON

 

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Haibun is one of my favorite ways to tell a story. The dense, vivid sensory details, the immersion in environment, the care paid to fine detail, & then that surprise & deepening at the end—so good. 

My haibun “Parking Lot, Deception Pass,” originally published in Moonchild Magazine, is up today at The Last Word On Nothing. You can read it here. 

A New-Old Poem at LWON

 

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A new version of my old poem "The Death of the Lobster" is up today at The Last Word on Nothing. 

You can read it here. 

Recent Work

Photo: Anita Austvika via Unsplash

It's been a very fancy few months. Some recent publications:

• Two prose poems in Moonchild Magazine, Issue Six
• One micropoem in PØST, Issue V
• A reprint in Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual 2020
• A matchbox (!) from Post Ghost Press 
• One poem in small poems for the masses, volume five

One Poem In Aesthetica

My poem "Surreal Monogamist," originally published in Yes Poetry, appears in this year's Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual. Get your copy here.

Two Lost Poems in Doubleback Review

My poems "Amaryllis" and "The Death of the Lobster" were both first published a few years ago. Then the magazines in which they appeared went under, and the poems disappeared.

I am very happy to report that both poems have been excavated and republished by the brand-new Doubleback Review, which specializes in doing precisely this thing.

Read the poems here.

Rerun Four: Wednesday in Therapy

Wednesday in Therapy

The bearskin rug that bit visitors was always my favorite. At Christmastime, our butler stood on the rooftop and doused carolers in boiling pitch. The mansion had trap doors, maim-you-if-you-misjudge-the-exit secret passageways. Carnivorous vines as silent as boa constrictors. A graveyard of gruesome statuary. The pits of quicksand. My father would throw an épée at anything that moved. Mother meticulously decapitated all the roses. Grandmama was always entertaining some demon or another. There were corpses in the closets, beasts with teeth in the bottoms of dresser drawers. No welcome mat, in other words. Yet still the villains got in.

They said we were safe
and flung open the front doors
to ravening wolves



Originally published in Moonchild Magazine.

[Image description: a color photograph of the Addams family mansion.]