“Grazing the Charred Sky,” Steve Kowit Poetry Prize Honorable Mention, San Diego Poetry Annual (2023-2024)
“Dumplings.” Catamaran (Winter 2023)
“Last Time I Saw Eve,” I-70 Review (2022)
“Humanity,” I-70 Review (2022)
Three Poems in A Journal of Radical Wonder
“You Will Be Done,” “Do Not Ask Why,” and “Jane Goodall’s Saddest Moment in Life Was When She Knew Chimpanzees Had a Natural Appetite for Destruction, Just Like Humans – or To a Hippo,” A Journal of Radical Wonder (2022)
“A Hole in the Sky,” A Moon Of One’s Own (2022)
We Must Now Save Ourselves
“We Must Now Save Ourselves,” Steve Kowit Poetry Prize Honorable Mention, San Diego Poetry Annual (2021-2022)
“The Audition,” Glimpse (Fall 2021)
The Souse
If living were easy, it would be dead—
before the current overtakes, come drink with me.
I Once Asked My Mother
if we had ever been happy—
she asked if was on drugs.
Fighting for Ukraine
Maybe you should take your mother with you—
it’d be a good bonding experience.
To look as tall as a man
is to speak whole without wine,
as if I’ve been wined.
Review of Beverly Hills’ Stand-Up During the Apocalypse
Whether the world celebrates or burns,
you remain so impressed by your own zip.
Insomnia, the Night RBG Died
For all of us who got the texts on that day
Maybe if I hadn’t gone to sleep,
I could’ve prolonged a world with you in it.
Sis-Gender/Lesbos
Do you know, sis, my rival
lives not in you—but your husband.
Lessons from a Cockroach
Cause you’ll always be
there, I’d grown to court my anger.
Ellipsis of a Suicide Note
What if it was never about you
and I couldn’t see that.
The Dowager’s Historical Temperament
All the kindness I ever had
choked out of men’s pens.
2 a.m. Text to an Ex
You are unforgettable cause you listened;
I am indelible cause I have a voice.