[some published under alt pen name]

Bootlaces Stay Tight

Finalist  | Crab Creek Review (Competition)

They agree: you can divide a soul / like cuts of meat

Photographer at Midland Beach, 1912

Pinch

And he, with crossed arms so frail he’d drown on a breaststroke, languors with that bored aristocratic sigh. The schlep.”

The Graveyard isn’t Warm

Spillway

a history receding / thicket-deep, a possum width, still and interrupted only / by the occasional wren.

Charity Fundraiser | Camelot

The Potomac

You are a professional stranger. You don't sell morality, or even yourself. You sell them them, unfolding the color of their organs like reversed origami.