Poetry

2025

• 40 soldiers bottled up tight (July 2025)
• The known knowns of smashing the state (April 2025)

2024

• Taylor-made machines need no introduction (September 2024)
• Sportscasters of the Apocalypse (August 2024)
• Morning ablutions (July 2024)
• There is a home (July 2024)
• The Indignant (July 2024)
• [waking like water] (July 2024)
• Septicemia knows no political party (June 2024)
• When the chaos grows thin (May 2024)
• When Tuesday is empty, could you have been real at all? (February 2024)

2023

• A recitation of unholy alliances (November 2023)
• The Dream (October 2023)
• Choking you, glowing youth (October 2023)

2022

• A Beatitude for the Coming Winter (November 2022)
• Voracious Endings (September 2022)
• The discursive fortunes of divinity (September 2022)
• Two-Step Before Sunset (February 2022)
• A high-pitched hum (February 2022)
• Midnight never existed (and neither did we) (January 2022)
• Horizons are for drinking, not burning (January 2022)
• Don’t kill the (digitally encrypted) messenger (January 2022)

2021

• An unapologetically sentimental Christmas poem (December 2021)
• Framed (December 2021)
• The Murder Complacency (December 2021)
• For When You Miss Me (December 2021)
• Meandering Towards Oblivion (December 2021)
• Don’t You Know (December 2021)
• And the world will be whole once more (October 2021)

2020

• Sheltering in Place in Chicago (March 2020)
• Day 47 – Between the Badlands and the Rockies (February 2020)
• A redundant retelling of a dream (February 2020)
• Metals fuse better in the dark (January 2020)
• Harvest (January 2020)
• Fossils (January 2020)
• Neighbors (January 2020)
• Put on a record and call the cats home (January 2020)

2019

• Buttoned down to the nines (January 2019)

2018

• A Merry Reckoning (December 2018)
• The Medicine Men of Potawatomi Park (December 2018)
• let the dead bury their dead but let me bury you (November 2018)
• Physical Therapy (November 2018)
• A shot to fill the night (April 2018)
• Write me a river (March 2018)
• Heels on golden rails (February 2018)
• Monarchy (January 2018)
• Tension (January 2018)

2017

• Draped in ketamine and lucid dreams (December 2017)
• Dry (November 2017)
• A shade tree ain’t worth a dime when the sun is down (November 2017)
• The proposal (November 2017)
• The (sleep) walk (October 2017)
• Say a prayer for me (October 2017)
• Get lost (October 2017)
• I can’t hear a goddamned thing (September 2017)
• The Laugh (August 2017)
• Dead letters have more life than you ever had (May 2017)
• That May Just Be (April 2017)
• Prayer for a 10am meeting (March 2017)
• The Clock (February 2017)

2016

• The Red Baron Ain’t Got Nothin’ On Me (October 2016)
• May arched backs know rest (October 2016)
• Denver –> San Diego (September 2016)
• The trees keep reaching but never get to heaven (August 2016)
• And all is well (August 2016)
• This place is flooding and we need to leave (July 2016)
• Meandering (July 2016)
• Draw the summer a home by the sea (June 2016)
• No devil, plenty of details (June 2016)
• Paris or bust, you sonofabitch (May 2016)
• Happy in your work (May 2016)
• And the birds are singing again (May 2016)
• Becker’s Folly (April 2016)
• The Breach (April 2016)
• A continuation (February 2016)

2015

• Waiting for a bird (November 2015)
• The smell of dried leaves from a bicycle seat (November 2015)
• Hits like Halloween candy (November 2015)
• What is she? (September 2015)
• Resolution – Eat More Figs (October 2015)
• Still looking up (October 2015)
• Rainer Maria & Summer & You (October 2015)
• Gift shops and pine forests (October 2015)
• Morning announcements and evening salvation (October 2015)
• A bargain (June 2015)
• See you in the Morning (A poem for my father) (June 2015)
• Tonight there will be blood and passion and death. (June 2015)
• She was drunk, I was sober (June 2015)
• As long as time permits (June 2015)
• The words all sound the same (June 2015)
• With loves like these who needs art (June 2015)
• Habit (June 2015)
• 3 years and two cities short (June 2015)
• Serenade (June 2015)
• Letters written but never sent (June 2015)
• Hey kid, you’re a hack! (June 2015)
• The birds that only sing at 4 a.m. (June 2015)
• High/Ghosts (June 2015)
• Well that was a funny turn to take (June 2015)
• Heavenly Light (May 2015)
• The illusion of movement (May 2015)
• These days are frauds (May 2015)
• Dirty magazines and buried memories (May 2015)
• Black and white dresses and spilled drinks (May 2015)
• Balancing the scales (May 2015)
• Trade (May 2015)
• Draw (May 2015)
• The summer left us between ambient coastlines (May 2015)
• 10 to the bar (May 2015)
• Where does that leave us? (May 2015)

2014

• Get Out From Under That Table (November 2014) Published on Deltona Howl
• Notes (November 2014) Published on Deltona Howl
• The A Bus (November 2014) Published on Deltona Howl
• What remains (September 2014)
• The Deathless (August 2014)
• Lights Flash (June 2014) Published on EveryWritersResource.com
• Beliefs can do no harm (April 2014)

2013

• Kiss me quick (December 2013)
• And to hell with the rest (December 2013)
• Another dance before we eat? (November 2013)
• Daylight becomes you my dear (October 2013)

2012

• Like Gold (May 2012)

2011

• Soup for one can easily feed two (June 2011)
• Daydream (May 2011)
• Counterspace. (May 2011)
• When reality overcomes dreams it makes for sleepless nights (April 2011)
• Two by Two (March 2011)

2010

• Already, All the Time (December 2010)
• Days (2010)