Poetry Bibliography
2016
“Exile," Star*Line, 39.1 Winter 2016
"Colonies," Star*Line, 39.2 Spring 2016
"Nameless," Star*Line, 39.2 Spring 2016
"The Hawk Soars," Tanka Journal, #3, 2016
"A Comet Plunges," Tanka Journal, #3, 2016
"The Fountain," Three Line Poetry, May 2016, Issue 37.
"Fey," Star*Line, 39.3 Summer 2016
"Red Star Elegy," Star*Line, 39.3 Summer 2016
"Friends in Small Places," Star*Line, 39.3 Summer 2016
"Past Imperfect," Poetry Quarterly, Summer 2016, RHYSLING NOMINEE.
"Connect the Dots," Poetry Quarterly, Summer 2016, Rebecca Lard Prize contender
"What We Sow," Inwood, Indiana, "Reaping" 2016
"Ghost Town," Inwood, Indiana, "Reaping" 2016
"The Crow," The Tanka Journal, #4 2016 "The Suit," The Tanka Journal, #4 2016
"Persephone," (sestina), Silver Blade 31, Summer 2016
"Storm Miners," Winner of the Blue Monday Review Storytime Challenge for August, 2016. RHYSLING NOMINEE.
"SN 1006," Star*Line, 39.4, Fall 2016
"Fairest," Star*Line, 39.4, Fall 2016
"Protocols," Star*Line, 39.4, Fall 2016
"The Door," Grievous Angel, October 10, 2016
"Falling," Dreams & Nightmares, 104, September 2016
"Possession," Eye to the Telescope, Issue 22, October 2016
"Footsteps," Science Fiction Poetry Association's 2016 Halloween Reading. October, 2016.
"The Owl," Electric Haiga, October 31, 2016.
2017
"Parting," Star*Line, 40.1 Winter 2017
"Once Human," Star*Line, 40.1 Winter 2017
"The Best Western on 107 Piscium E," Star*Line, 40.1 Winter 2017 (Editor's choice)
"The Graveyard of Ships," Star*Line, 40.1 Winter 2017
"Ghost Light Paradelle." Star*Line, 40.1 Winter 2017
"Knitting Souls," Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words, Vol. 4, #3, January 2017
"Emet," Eye to the Telescope #23, January 2017.
"Piano tuning" (than bauk form), Three Line Poetry #41, January 16, 2017.
"Candle in a cup," Stardust HaikuVol. 1, January 17, 2017.
“Summer in Memory’s Glass,” Peacock Journal, January 25, 2017.
“Penn’s Woods,” Peacock Journal, January 25, 2017.
“Motion and Music,” Peacock Journal, January 25, 2017.
"Lo Shu's Magic Square," Snakeskin #237 (Maths and Numbers issue), Feburary 1, 2017. Dwarf Star 2018 3rd place tie!
"Flora," Speculative 66, Issue 5, February 6, 2017.
"The Banshee's Embrace," Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry, February 6th, 2017.
"The Awakening," The Ekphrastic Review, February 7, 2017.
"Perspective," Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words, Vol. 4, #4, February 2017.
"Desire Songs," Silver Blade 33, Winter, February 20, 2017.
"Epistrophia," Liquid Imagination, February 27, 2017.
"Vegetative State," Spirit's Tincture Issue 3, February 28, 2017.
"Assumption," Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words, Vol. 4, #5, March 2017.
"Shadow in Time," Inwood, Indiana, "The Pop Machine," March 2017.
"Diaspora," Gyroscope Review, Spring 2017, issue 17-2, April 1. (p. 28)
"Pollen," Parody, April 1, 2017.
"Taos Sirens," Altered Reality, April 2, 2017.
"Paratopia," Altered Reality, April 2, 2017.
"Shadow Cast," Altered Reality, April 2, 2017,
"Saturnine," Altered Reality, April 2, 2017.
"Asteroids," Three Line Poetry #42, April 12, 2017.
"I dream of hidden rooms," Undertow Tanka Review, issue 11, April 20, 2017.
"Prey," Speculative 66, Issue 8, May 6, 2017.
"Deathless," Speculative 66, Issue 8, May 6, 2017.
"White Hole," Speculative 66, Issue 8, May 6, 2017.
"The Colors of Time," The Tanka Journal #5, May 14, 2017. 2018 Dwarf Star nominee.
"Three Suns," SCIFAIKUEST, May 2017.
"Neutrinos," SCIFAIKUEST, May 2017.
"Operator," Star*Line, 40.2 Spring 2017.
"The Stone Garden," Liquid Imagination, May 31, 2017.
"Shards of a Fractured Soul," Strange Land: Poet's Haven Digest #3, May 2017. RHYSLING NOMINEE.
"The Eldest," Strange Land: Poet's Haven Digest #3, May 2017.
"Collectibles," Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words, Vol. 4, #8, June 2017.
"Oversight," Riddled with Arrows 1.2, June 21, 2017.
"The Drowsing God," Eternal Haunted Summer, Summer 2017.
"The Rose," Poetry Quarterly, Spring 2017.
"Tentacles," Three Line Poetry #43, June 24, 2017.
"Garden Planet," Abyss & Apex, #63, July 1, 2017.
"The Courtesan," Devilfish Review, #19, July 2017.
"Russalka," Devilfish Review, #19, July 2017.
"Unseen mirror," Star*Line 40.3, July 2017.
"Landfill Fey," Eye to the Telescope, #25, July 2017.
"Postcard from Callisto," Polu Texni, July 24, 2017.
"Inhuman Nature," Grievous Angel, July 25, 2017.
"Dolls," Grievous Angel, July 25, 2017.
"Gravewise,"Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words, Vol. 4, #10, August 2017.
"Evolution," Claudius Speaks, #4, August 10, 2017.
"Testament," Panoply, #7, Summer 2017.
"Backyard Telescope," Three Line Poetry #45, September 2017.
"Dark Matter Ghosts," Into the Void #5, Autumn 2017.
"For Sale," Spectral Realms #7, Summer 2017.
"His Voice in the Whisper of Waves," (with Kendall Evans) Spectral Realms #7, Summer 2017.
"Silent Songs," Spectral Realms #7, Summer 2017.
"Preconscious," BSFA Focus, #67, September 20, 2017.
"The Fetch," SFPA Halloween reading, September 2017.
"Scribal Error," Gyroscope Review, Fall 2017, issue 17-4, October 1, 2017 (p. 49). PUSHCART NOMINEE.
"Candy-Colored Dreams," Gyroscope Review, Fall 2017, issue 17-4, October 1, 2017 (p. 40).
"The Pyre," Wild Musette, "The Sin Eater," September 2017.
"Old Foes," Poetry Quarterly, Summer 2017. (October 13, 2017)
"Elemental" Star*Line 40.4, Fall 2017. "They Come Walking," Star*Line 40.4, Fall 2017.
"Chiasmus," SCIFAIKUEST, November 2017. Dwarf Star 2018 nominee.
"Evolution," SCIFAIKUEST, November 2017.
"We are Them and They are Us," Helios Quarterly, Vol. 2, Issue 3.
"At the Edge of Ever," Spirit's Tincture #5, November 30, 2017.
"Caveat Emptor," Silver Blade 36, Fall 2017 (December 5, 2017).
"Word Salad," Riddled with Arrows, Winter 2017 (December 21, 2017).
"Diwia," Eternal Haunted Summer, Winter 2017.
"Snowflake," (haiga) Akitsu Quarterly, Winter 2017.
"Terns," Poetry Quarterly, #31, Fall 2017.
2018
"Glossolalia," Fictional Pairings, January 4, 2018.
"Rex Arthurs," Eye to the Telescope, Issue 27, January 16, 2018. Rhysling-nominated!
"The Mountain's Heart," Enchanted Conversation, February 1, 2018.
"Inverse," The Hungry Chimera, issue 4, February 1, 2018.
"Dar Lugal," Star*Line 41.1, Winter 2018.
"Tree of Swords," Star*Line 41.1, Winter 2018. (Editor's choice, Pushcart Nominated!)
"Honoring the War God," Star*Line 41.1, Winter 2018.
"Surrender," Poetry Quarterly, Winter 2017 (March 3, 2018)
"They never left," Modern Poetry Quarterly Review, Winter 2018 (March 7, 2018).
"Past is Present," Modern Poetry Quarterly Review, Winter 2018 (March 7, 2018). Rhysling-nominated!
"Once Carved in Marble," NewMyths.com, issue 42 (March 15 2018)
"Masks," Polu Texni: A Magazine of Many Arts, March 26, 2018.
"E pur si muove," Star*Line 41.2, Spring 2018.
"Paper Hearts," The Tanka Journal, #7, Spring 2018.
"Balloons Rise," Helen: A literary journal, Spring 2018.
"Rejuvenation," (with Kendall Evans), Polu Texni: A Magazine of Many Arts, April 30, 2018.
"Forgiving the Dead," Poetry Quarterly #33, Spring 2018 (Rebecca Lard Award Honorable Mention)
"The Search," Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry, May 15, 2018. Rhysling-nominated!
"Their Eyes Face East," (with Kendall Evans), Bete Noire #26, May 28, 2018.
"Pieces of the Sky," Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry, June 1, 2018.
"Mother," Eternal Haunted Summer, June 21, 2018. Rhysling-nominated!
"The Dark Wyrm." Gehenna & Hinnom, vol. 007, June 2018.
"Creators," Mirror Dance, Summer 2018.
"Indigestion," Gyroscope Review, Issue 18-3 Summer 2018.
"Hitogata," Gyroscope Review, Issue 18-3 Summer 2018. (Click here to find my reading of it on Gyroscope's site!)
"M-Theory Set to Eleven," Gyroscope Review, Issue 18-3 Summer 2018.
"This Sacred Earth," Abyss & Apex #67, Fall 2018. Rhysling-nominated!
"In Ligno," Spectral Realms #9, Summer 2018.
"Spectral Noir," Spectral Realms #9, Summer 2018.
"The Sea-Wolf of Brittany," Liminality #17, Autumn 2018. Rhysling-nominated!
"Electric Sylph," Wild Musette: Vegetable Pulp, October 2, 2018.
"Lupus Familiaris," Star*Line, #41.4, Fall 2018.
"After the Seas' Rise," Star*Line, #41.4, Fall 2018.
"Hangry," Star*Line, #41.4, Fall 2018.
"The Swarm," Star*Line, #41.4, Fall 2018.
"Cybernetic Harvest," Star*Line, #41.4, Fall 2018, with D.A. Xiaolin Spires and Gretchen Tessmer.
"As Steam through Smoke," Slipstream #38, October 2018.
"Blossom," Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, #38, November 3, 2018.
"Haunted," The Cascadia Subduction Zone Vol. 8, No. 4, 2018.
"Ceres," The Cascadia Subduction Zone Vol. 8, No. 4, 2018.
"Reborn in Blood," The Cascadia Subduction Zone Vol. 8, No. 4, 2018.
"The Barn-Raising," The Cascadia Subduction Zone Vol. 8, No. 4, 2018.
"Contemplation," The Cascadia Subduction Zone Vol. 8, No. 4, 2018.
"Returned," Inwood, Indiana, "Empty Silos," December 2018.
"Enceladus," Polu Texni: A Magazine of Many Arts, December 17, 2018.
"Skathi's Spite," Eternal Haunted Summer, December 21, 2018. Rhysling-nominated!
"Awakening," Truancy #5, December 26, 2018.
2019
"World-Lines," Eye to the Telescope, Issue 31, January 15, 2019.
"Giants in the Earth," Star*Line 42.1, Winter 2019. Pushcart nominated!
"Balancing Act," with D. A. Xiaolin Spires and Gretchen Tessmer, Star*Line 42.1, Winter 2019. Dwarf Star nominated!
"Under the Ice," Dreams & Nightmares #111, January 2019.
"Arcology," DreamForge, January 2019.
"Dying Dust," Three Line Poetry #50, February 24, 2019.
"Tessellation," Silver Blade #41, March 1, 2019.
"Children of the Trees," Polu Texni: A Magazine of Many Arts, March 11, 2019. Rhysling nominated!
"Veritas and Errata," NewMyths #46, March 16, 2019.
"The Reliquary," Liminality #19, Spring 2019.
"The Journey," Polu Texni, April 2, 2019. Rhysling nominated!
"Lost Whispers," Heron Tree, April 14, 2019.
"Eros Ascendant," Star*Line 42.2, Spring 2019.
“The Fruit of Life and Death," Nothing's Sacred #5, June 2019, Jack of No Trades Productions.
"A Mask of Ice," Eternal Haunted Summer, June 21, 2019.
"A Maze of Mind and Marble," Liminality #21, September 23, 2019.
"A Shroud to a Wedding," Dreams & Nightmares #113, September 2019.
"The Fledgling," Star*Line, Star*Line 42.4, Fall 2019.
"We Flower in Darkness," Macabre Museum Volume 1, issue 1, October 31, 2019.
"Midnight Train," Poetry Quarterly #36, Winter 2018,
"Apotemniphilia," HWA Poetry Showcase, Vol. VI, November 2019.
"Sea Bride," Frozen Wavelets #1, December 13, 2019.
"Always More to Break," Silver Blade #44, December 28, 2019.
2020
"Dark Waters," Reckoning #4, January 1, 2020.
"Raining Ghosts," House of Zolo #1, January 1, 2020.
"Tide-Bourne," House of Zolo #1, January 1, 2020.
"A Touch of Lightning in the Soul," Abyss & Apex #73, January 1, 2020. Rhysling Nominated!
"Canis Roboticus," Past Tense: A Not One of Us Special Publication, January 2020.
"Xipe Totec," Spectral Realms #12, February 2020.
"The Witch's Cat," Spectral Realms #12, February 2020.
"Above the Clouds," Star*Line 43.1, Winter 2020.
"In Pluto's Embrace," Abyss & Apex #74, April 1, 2020.
"The Dragon God's Best Trick," Mirror Dance #20, April 1, 2020.
"A Hand Against my Window," 34 Orchard, #1, Spring 2020. Rhysling Nominated!
"Graves on Miranda," Star*Line 43.2, Spring 2020, Editor's Choice!
"4 Vesta" F&SF March/April 2020.
"Waiting," Frozen Wavelets Issue 3 (2-2), June 21, 2020.
"Vintage Years," Asimov's Science Fiction, July/August 2020.
"Electronic Djinn," Space & Time #137, July 2020.
"A Society of Cats," Wergle Flomp #19, Honorable Mention, August 15, 2020.
"The Sacred Journey," Silver Blade #47, August 31, 2020.
"On the Donor List," Hexagon #2, September 1, 2020. Best of the Net Nominated!
"Sheets," Frozen Wavelets #4, September 20, 2020. Dwarf Star Nominated!
"The Witch's Cat," Eye to the Telescope #38, October 15, 2020. Rhysling Nominated, reprint!
"The Queen of Heaven's Children," Polu Texni, The Magazine of Many Arts, October 25, 2020.
"Desert Ghosts," TERSE. November 11, 2020.
"Signs of Life," American Diversity Report, November 13, 2020.
"Broken Mirror," Silver Blade #48, December 16, 2020.
2021
"Feeding the Dead," Polu Texni: A Magazine of Many Arts, January 10, 2021. Rhysling nominated!
"From a High Perch, Waiting," Short Circuit #5, February 12, 2021.
"The Fall that Doesn't Kill You," Utopia Science Fiction, February 2021, Vol. 2 Issue 4.
"Totems," Polu Texni: A Magazine of Many Arts, May 2, 2021. Rhysling nominated!
"Gris-Gris," Selene Quarterly, Volume 4, Issue 1, June 2021. Rhysling nominated!
"Words Written in Earth," Eternal Haunted Summer, June 21, 2021.
"Dyson 2.0," Star*Line 44.3, Summer 2021.
"Among the Scythians," Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #49, August 1, 2021. Rhysling nominated!
"Days of Wine and Petrichor," Dreams & Nightmares, #119 September 2021.
"Selachimorphosis," Eye to the Telescope #42, October 2021. Rhysling nominated!
"Strings," 1st place, Dwarf Form, SFPA 2021 Contest, October 24, 2021. Dwarf Star Nominated!
"Transplantation," And the Dead Shall Sleep No More anthology, November 1, 2021.
"A Garden of Flesh," HWA Poetry Showcase Vol. 8, November 15, 2021. (Ellen Datlow's Long List)
"Thirst," House of Zolo: Journal of Speculative Literature Vol. 3, November 16, 2021.
2022
"The Eyes of Argus," Star*Line 45.1, Winter 2022 January 2, 2022.
"Divinity," Star*Line 45.1, Winter 2022, January 2, 2022.
"Modern Crimes," Samjoko #1, January 2022.
"Quexque," Samjoko #1, January 2022.
"Marginalia on a Broken Heart," Samjoko #1, January 2022.
"Circumspection," Samjoko #1, January 2022.
"A Seed of Wild Dreams," Samjoko #1, January 2022.
"To Live Forever in a Dream," American Diversity Report, February 15, 2022.
"Debris," The Avenue Journal #7: Freedom. Rhysling Nominated!
"Genius Loci," Penumbric, April 2022.
"Viral Semiotics," Eye to the Telescope #44, April 2022.
"We Feed on Stone and Light," The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2022.
"Seeds of the World Tree," The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2022.
"The Architect," JOURN-E: The Journal of Imaginative Literature, vol. 1, no. 1, March 20, 2022.
"Microcosms," Star*Line 45.2 Spring 2022 April 1, 2022.
"Through the Garden," Penumbric June 15, 2022.
"Drowning in this Sunken City," Strange Horizons, July 3, 2022.
"Remembering Forward," Star*Line 45.3, July 4, 2022.
"Aqua Vitae" Radon Journal #2, September 15, 2022.
"My Big Fat Deep One Wedding," JOURN-E: The Journal of Imaginative Literature, vol. 1, no. 2, September 22, 2022.
"The Futures Lost Between Us," Dreams and Nightmares #122, September 2022.
"Blå Jungfrun," Strange Horizons, September 26, 2022. Rhysling Nominated!
"In the Valleys of Venus," Abyss & Apex #84, September 26, 2022.
"On the Trail of Forgotten Dreams," Star*Line 45.4, Fall 2022, October 4, 2022.
"Darklight," Frozen Wavelets #7, October 2022.
2023
"Sculpting Stars," Star*Line 46.1, Winter 2023 January 1, 2023.
"The Blood of Life," Star*Line 46.1, Winter 2023, January 1, 2023.
"A Dryad Reborn," Frozen Wavelets #8, March 3, 2023.
"Wanted," Star*Line 46.3 Summer 2023, July 1, 2023.
"Portrait of the Bold Captain," Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, #59, August 5, 2023.
"Worlds Divided," JOURN-E 2.2 Autumn 2023
"Lowenmensch," Abyss & Apex #88, September 30, 2023.
"Danse Sanguinaire," Qualia Nous, Vol. 2, October 31, 2023. Named to Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year!
"Cleansing Me of You," 34 Orchard, Issue #8, November 2023.
"Patchwork Girl," HWA Poetry Showcase X, November 7, 2023.
"Detritus," The Literary Hatchet #36, November 2023.
"Flowers of the Mind," The Literary Hatchet #36, November 2023.
"Patterns in the Eye of Eternity," The Literary Hatchet #36, November 2023.
2024
"A Time Loop," Dreams and Nightmares #126, January 2024.
"The Harpy's Chick," Penumbric, February 2024.
"A Hollow Heart," Spectral Realms #20, February 2024.
"The Torment of Flame," Spectral Realms #20, February 2024.
"Queen Fu Hao," Eye to the Telescope #52, April 2024.
"Not Quite Venice," Utopia Science Fiction, April/May 2024. Nominated for Best of the Net!
"Old Mutunus," Eternal Haunted Summer, June 2024.
"Sangria," Eye to the Telescope #53, Summer 20204.
"How the Android Dreamed her Own Face" JOURN-E, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2024.
"The Suns in Her Eyes," Baubles from Bones, Issue 3, December 2024.
"To Love Too Much," Penumbric, vol. viii issue 4, December 2024.
2025
"Released," Waffle Fried, Issue #1, February 15, 2025.
"Dragon teeth," Sublimation, Vol. 2, Issue 1, January/February 2025. (Dwarf Star nominee!)
"The Fenris Wind," Sublimation, Vol. 2, Issue 1, January/February 2025.
"In Coffee Spoons," Merganser Magazine, January 2025.
"Unbound," Strange Horizons, February 24, 2025.
"How to Grow a Home," Snakeskin, March 1, 2025.
"Dark Matter Storm," Analog, March/April 2025.
"Red Blood, Dark Water," Abyss & Apex, Issue 94: 2nd Quarter 2025. Rhysling Nominee!
"Sunstorm," Star*Line 48.2, Spring 2025.
"Words Written by Waves," Invisible City, Spring 2025.
"They Weren't Us," The Pink Hydra, Volume 2, Number 1, June 6, 2025.
"Medea," The Pink Hydra, Volume 2, Number 1, June 6, 2025.
"The Watchers," Star*Line 48.3, Summer 2025.
"My Palimpsest," Italiks, volume 1, issue 1, July 1, 2025.
"Shaping Futures," The Limerick in Chains, July 22, 2025.
"The Alien's Doctoral Dissertation," The Limerick in Chains, July 22, 2025.
"The Allegorical Prophet," The Limerick in Chains, July 22, 2025.
"On Why Your Favorite Diner’s Closed Down," The Limerick in Chains, July 22, 2025.
"A River, a Tree," This Exquisite Topology, August 7, 2025.
"Diamond World," After Happy Hour, #27, August 19, 2025.
"Altamura Man," Reader Beware Magazine, September 30, 2025.
"A Library of Lost Souls," Teach. Write. October 3, 2025.
"The Planet's Darkside," HWA Showcase XII, October 7, 2025.
"On Warp and Woof," The Sunlight Press, October 21, 2025.
"Aurochs," The Sunlight Press, October 21, 2025.
"The Famulus," 4LPH4NUM3R1C #6, October 25, 2025
"Come and Play," Penumbric, December 2025.
"Observer, Observed," SpecPoVerse, Vol. 1, Issue 3 December 2025.
2026
"Our Titan Home," Dead of Winter IV, Milk & Cake Press, March 2026.
"The Magic of Words," Star*Line 49.2, April 2026.
"A Cocktail Party in Dimensional Hell," Star*Line 49.2, April 2026.
"Defying Entropy," Spellbinder, Spring 2026, April 6, 2026.
"Pygmalion Redux," SpecPoVerse, vol. 2, issue 1, April 30, 2026.