“In Its Distance,” Prime Number Magazine, Issue 131, April-June 2018
- They are so like love, hurricanes.
[Reprint] “Where I Don’t Live,” Verse Daily, March 4, 2018
- Tiny squares, triangles and hexagons
“In Parentheses,” Literary Mama, November 2014
- It’s Saturday and we sit on the floor
piecing together LEGO® houses and flying cars
“What Binds Us,” Cream City Review, Spring/Summer Issue, June 2011
- When my grandmother and mother are together they get asked if
they are twins–
my mom has to hear how she’s the younger, uglier one.
“Disconnected,” Strong Verse, July 2010
- The answering machine light remains solid,
the empty side of my bed is full
of new pillows. It is almost midnight
“Muse,” Strong Verse, July 2010
- It seems the journey has not been easy for you, either.
“Spring Cleaning in Winter,” Strong Verse, July 2010
- I help her throw away two-year-old sour cream,
the nearly empty cleaning products, two, three,
no, six bottles under the sink.
“Any Good Reason,” Strong Verse, July 2010
- It took all my effort at first
but after time became who I am,
“Where I Don’t Live,” Connotation Press, March 2010
- Tiny squares, triangles and hexagons
“Dead Files,” Connotation Press, March 2010
- I thumb through boxes, 65, 19, 37,
piece together, organize, reshuffle.
Each file rubs against the other,
“Physicality of Learning,” Connotation Press, March 2010
- It comes from hurrying to fill sweet tea for a young couple
feeding sweet-n-low to their toddler through a pixie stick.
“Foundation,” Connotation Press, March 2010
- It took all my grandmother’s strength
to open and close her curtains weighted
with polyester and years of Price is Right.
