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A selection of my poems for adults, published in literary journals. Online and print publications are listed separately.

Online Poems

"Yeti Poem" – Sugar House Review

"he was a monster trapped in an ice slab / of trouble"

"Shards of the Nautilus Shell" – Academy of American Poets

"A mollusk checks into the Astro Lamp Motel"

"Memory Replacement Test" – Santa Clara Review

"a bacchanal // of hopping cottontails"

"The Creamy Half" – Crab Apple Literary

"I live the rabbit life at last."

"Ready or Not" – Jelly Squid 

"My inner child is playing / hide-and-seek again"

"I scrubbed my face until it went / down the drain"

Poems in Print

Fourteen Hills, Issue 28 – includes "Hand of God"
Molecule, Issue 10 – includes "Look Out Below"
Hotel Amerika, Twentieth Anniversary Issue – includes
"The Other Haunted Mansion"
Santa Clara Review, Volume 109, Issue 1 – includes "Memory Replacement Test" (linked above) & "The American Kestrel"
Kestrel, Issue 45 – includes "Harpo Talks in Hades," "The Green Knight," & "The Ship in a Bottle"
Tar River Poetry, Volume 60, Number 1 – includes "In Praise of Bumper Cars"
Spillway, Issue 26 – includes "Forever Falling Anvil"

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