“Poem for a nonsoldier where I can't see him”, published Autumn 2020 in Leland Quarterly.

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Come back to my touch and the wind and the rain,

the pregnant clouds, to me.

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“Grounds for hope”, published in August 2018 in the Cordite Poetry Review.

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I won’t mind a bit I’ll make every part the

teeth mouth ears nose and with uncompromising style.

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“Poem by my grandfather in a faint”, published November 2018 in K'in Literary Journal.

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In a spell of dizziness, I think of your name,

your name as it is, La-ra, La-ra.

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“Night-song”, 805lit. Published in late summer 2019.

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I see you sleeping in a dark room

as you would sleep alone,

unaware that you are yours, and I

am yours as well.

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“Juror”, published spring 2019 by the Thirty West Publishing House.

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Will someone else say innocent?

I won’t say innocent,

I will go home to two kids. And the

man lifts a heavy eye to my eye,

the pupil, the whites full to the bone,

fuller than mine have ever been

in the years I have fed fishes.

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“Supplement”, published February 2019 in GASHER.

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To suck uses two muscles in my

lips and unkissed neck. It passes this

unlicked space that should not

be saved for lilacs.

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“In the village in the weeds”, published February 2020 by Atlas and Alice.

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there was no     delivery
it’s out of me now

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“O not enough silence”, published in di-verse-city 2018, the youth anthology of the Austin International Poetry Festival.

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Most of my Insides

are now on the Outside for Strangers to Observe, in order of secrecy,

and the most private is farthest and easiest to notice.

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“Becoming my own”, “wintering here now”, “gillian anderson”, published fall 2018 by Persephone's Daughters.

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your jutting chin, your maidensmile,

exorbitantly beautiful.

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“Ray”, published January 2018 in Typishly.

 

watching and trembling to see all the naked
years of their slow moving.