Selected Published Poetry
2026
At the Zoo, the Day of the Second Deadliest School Shooting Prime Number Magazine #283
Farriers Don’t Drive Ferries Either Quartet V.6 #3
Insomnia Anodyne #7
My Therapist Says I Should Pay Attention to the Birds Eleventh Hour
Pain is Glue Cetera #2
Poetry Feature Paper Sigh
Southern Potlucky West Trestle Review Summer 26
St. John's River Variant Lit
What if Fairy Tales were Diagnosis Stories Disabled Tales
What Lies Between Sick and Healthy plus 2 more poems Blood and Thunder Winter 26
Wildlife Documentary and Pain is a Flock of Crows and Welter Spring 26
2025
Always Hungry Flare Magazine #3
Astragalomancy & A Pain Participation Poem Does it Have Pockets, Jan 2025
Arthritic Spine & Osteomancy Grist #17
Bested by Charismatic Megafauna Stone Circle Review 10.12.25
Just so Armadillo Channel Magazine #12
Letter to a Pain that Won't Leave Madison Review v52
Middle-Aged, We Re-landscape with Century Plants Rush 7/6/25
My Friend is Dying Susurrus #12
Nursing Mom's Group and 3 more poems Philly Chapbook Review Spring 25
Ode to a Zoo Fence South 85
Pain is a Door Equinox v. 8
Pain is a Nightshade Acta Victoriana #149.2
Pain is a Road Muse Winter 2024
Pain is Sloth Two Thirds North
Pain is a Pause and Pain is wind CommuterLit
Pain is a Tractor Bellingham Review #90
Rehab Facility Penumbra Fall 2025
Self Portrait with Lupus Honeyguide Literary Magazine #9
Song for the Diagnoses Metaworker 6/27
Pain is a Romance Novel Pan Haiku Review #5
Trapped Outside Talon Review v.3 #5
Word Problems in Math and Civil Disobedience in English Ephiphany #34
2024
A Real Life Fairy Tale Ponder Review V8, #2
Arthritic Lifestyles Pleiades V44 #1
Chronic Time & Inhospitality Wishbone Words #14
Coach Neurologist Arc Poetry Award of Awesomeness
Dentists and Farriers Drink Too Much The Prose Poem
Florida Tries to Eradicate Thistles Tangled Locks Winter 2024
Hunted by Lupus Dead of Winter III Anthology
I Smell the Urine of an Englishman New Feathers Spring 2024
It's an Eight Hour Drive to Drop Off my Son at College Of Poets and Poetry
Mermaid Sculptures with the Rheumatologist The Prose Poem
My Eldest is Leaving and If the Doctor Starts Taking Orders Hope Anthology
Mother Butterfly Hopes Salamander #58
Normal Life in English, Before and two more poems Calendula Review
Not A B, or a C, Roof The Sunlight Press 1/16/24
Pain is a Shark MockingHeart Review
Pain is Fuzzy Rogue Agent #114
Sometimes it Helps to Squint Ekphrastic Review 7/19/24
Temporarily Non-Disabled & A Villanelle for the Utensils Knee Brace Press Feb 24
The Curatorial-Minded Psychologist and 6 more poemsThe Pangea Prize
The Gynocologist, My Confessor in Orca Winter 24
Two Poems in Lit Shark Shark Week Edition
2023
A Succulent Christmas in Instant Noodles vol. 3 issue 3
Airstream Dreams in Red Rose Thorns vol. 2
Art History in Hearth and Coffin vol. 3, issue 3
Art History Lectures from the Radiologist at Unbroken
Chile Women at Ravens Perch
Engagement in Cadence v. 41
Flood the Rivers in Stoneboat v.13 #2
Piglet Squid in Honeyguide #7
Rheumatology Cocktail Menu and 4 more poems Plexus #11
The Lidless Eye in Of Poets and Poetry April '23
The Urologist in DMQ Review Summer '23
The Putting the Baby Down Theory Milk Art Journal v.2
Thinning in Medical Literary Messenger Winter '23
With Pain in Reapparition Journal #7
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