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POETRY: 2022
Poems published in literary journals in 2022
Published in Feral Poetry,
June 30, 2022
I did not see the granola bar
until I arrived at work
and rummaged through
my bag for lipstick or a tissue.
Published in New Verse News,
June 24, 2022
Had my life but stood
a loaded gun, I might have
roamed these sovereign states
with ease and in the open.
Published in Pendemics Journal,
Spring, 2021
This month is known
for the unflinching bind
of life and death. My Aprils
have crescendoed into despair,
each more deafening than the last.
Published in Pendemics Journal,
Spring, 2021
She learned in the early 90s
that the sidewalks of New York
are not flat, taking her handheld
level to the pavement to find
how hard it was for the weakened
still beautiful men to walk the avenues
Published in New Verse News,
May 25, 2022
Can you see it?
The shredding of precious
organs, of slim muscles and growing
bones, of smiles and baby teeth,
of dimples and pinky promises,
when weapons meant for war
open fire on 40- and 50-pound
children crouching under desks,
Published in New Verse News,
May 5, 2022
My daughters and I live in a leaky
old house. The three of us have
learned how to handle a plumbing
emergency, to spring into action,
sop up the mess, cut the water lines,
track the source, mend the seams.
Published in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily,
April 11, 2022
As spring arrived once more,
the death calls petered out.
We made it through a full year,
just barely, and survived.
Published in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily,
February 11, 2022
I’ve come to think of this virus as a mad villanelle,
like Sisyphus staggering up that hill under his stone
each week tumbling backward into hell.
Published in MockingHeart Review,
Winter 2022
One year into the long tail of this virus
I find things I do not recognize,
veins bulging that once lay flat, flacid pouches
where muscle lived and flexed, fine lines
and crepe-draped skin puckering