6/13/2025 |
Evening Carnival
| Haiku | allusion,word play, |
6/12/2025 |
Fulcrum of a Rose?
| Free verse | extended metaphor, |
6/12/2025 |
To No One in Particular on the Unofficial HOA, Regarding Chickens: aka Weaponizing a Metaphor
| Free verse | anger,community,conflict, |
6/12/2025 |
What a Catch
| Free verse | character,irony,memory, |
6/12/2025 |
The Cost of Closeness
| Free verse | anxiety,june,planet, |
6/11/2025 |
Hostile Architecture and Its Narcissistic Gatekeeper
| Free verse | anger,art,writing, |
6/9/2025 |
Misuses of Charismatic Privilege: The Violent Pressure of Personality
| Free verse | character,community,ident |
6/9/2025 |
The Road to Hail is Paved
| Free verse | allusion,appreciation,gro |
6/8/2025 |
violin
| Senryu | longing,magic, |
6/6/2025 |
On the Body's Decision to Become a Freight Elevator
| Haibun | age,extended metaphor, |
6/6/2025 |
Rejection After the Reading
| Free verse | funny love, |
5/23/2025 |
This Probably Isn't For You and You Don’t Have to Answer
| Free verse | analogy, |
5/23/2025 |
Parasocial Relationship: What Remains Is the Latch
| Free verse | absence,anxiety,friend,li |
5/18/2025 |
Self-Portrait with My Shoebill Friend as We Rebrand Spirituality
| Free verse | extended metaphor,identit |
5/18/2025 |
Self-Portrait with My Shoebill Friend at the End of the World
| Free verse | analogy,bird, |
5/17/2025 |
Self-Portrait with Flightless Bird
| Free verse | bird,self, |
5/10/2025 |
Bad Science
| Free verse | death of a friend, |
5/6/2025 |
Syntax for the Second Self
| Free verse | time,words,writing, |
5/5/2025 |
Improvised Altars
| Free verse | mythology, |
5/4/2025 |
Character Witness
| Free verse | growth,irony, |
5/4/2025 |
Self Portrait
| Free verse | self,writing, |
5/2/2025 |
For the Sake of the Children
| Free verse | extended metaphor,friends |
5/2/2025 |
Minor Poltergeists
| Free verse | extended metaphor, |
4/30/2025 |
Creation Story, From the Tongue Outward
| Free verse | allegory,extended metapho |
4/30/2025 |
Survival Tips for Recovering Cynics
| Free verse | moving on,word play, |
4/30/2025 |
Main Character Syndrome
| Haiku | word play, |
4/30/2025 |
Divorce
| Free verse | divorce,marriage,self, |
4/30/2025 |
White Noise with Bangs
| Free verse | friend, |
4/30/2025 |
Peripheral
| Sonnet | anger,betrayal,dark, |
4/29/2025 |
Palate Cleanser
| Free verse | extended metaphor,food, |
4/28/2025 |
Jinxed
| Verse | integrity,language, |
4/27/2025 |
Runner
| Free verse | absence,character,journey |
4/26/2025 |
Hit and Outrun
| Free verse | conflict,self, |
4/26/2025 |
Heritage Day, May 2063
| Free verse | allegory,america, |
4/26/2025 |
Ersatz Docent in the I Am Museum
| Free verse | metaphor,self, |
4/26/2025 |
Undertow
| Ekphrasis | art,dance, |
4/26/2025 |
Interview with a Barnacle
| Free verse | extended metaphor, |
4/25/2025 |
Patience
| Haiku | appreciation,green, |
4/25/2025 |
Gardening Lessons: When to Pull the Volunteers
| Free verse | conflict,extended metapho |
4/21/2025 |
At Least One Giant Ground Sloth Is Alive Again
| Free verse | allusion,environment,exte |
4/14/2025 |
The Matriarchs are Molting Again
| Free verse | age,allusion,women,word p |
4/12/2025 |
A Reflection on That Time I Let My Husband Cut My Hair
| Free verse | devotion, |
4/12/2025 |
When Pets and Their Companions Start to Resemble Each Other
| Free verse | allusion,anxiety,conflict |
4/12/2025 |
Domesticated Violence
| Free verse | abuse,anger,anxiety,art,i |
4/12/2025 |
Afternoon Tea with a Friend Who Mistook Me for a Vanity Mirror
| Free verse | absence,abuse,art,conflic |
4/12/2025 |
A Mirror is Sand and Water As
| Etheree | death of a friend,extende |
4/11/2025 |
While You Wait
| Free verse | destiny, |
4/11/2025 |
The Gas Station Paradox
| Free verse | extended metaphor, |
2/21/2025 |
On Our Silver Anniversary: Love Does Not Boast, But It Does Take Notes
| Free verse | anniversary,humorous, |
2/19/2025 |
Still Life: Seventh-Grade Art Teacher Gets High Marks
| Free verse | absence,anger,child, |
1/17/2025 |
An Elegy for TikTok: My Battery is Low and it’s Getting Dark
| Free verse | appreciation,community, |
1/17/2025 |
Artichokes in Season
| Free verse | absence,allusion,food, |
1/17/2025 |
Olive Oil Confessions
| Free verse | allusion,food, |
1/15/2025 |
Frozen Out of Context
| Free verse | allusion, |
1/15/2025 |
Sour Milk Gospel
| Free verse | allusion,food, |
1/15/2025 |
Noah’s Best Molasses
| Free verse | allegory, |
1/15/2025 |
Cold Cuts
| Free verse | allusion,food, |
1/15/2025 |
Meringues
| Free verse | allusion,sweet, |
1/15/2025 |
An Acquired Taste
| Free verse | allusion,fruit, |
1/15/2025 |
Slices of Life
| Free verse | food,grave, |
1/15/2025 |
This Wanted to Be an Ode to Pain au Levain
| Free verse | appreciation, |
1/15/2025 |
My Husband Leaves
| Free verse | analogy, |
1/15/2025 |
Lunch is a Knife’s Edge
| Free verse | age,fruit, |
12/23/2024 |
Nuclear Winter: Holiday Dinner Reimagined
| Free verse | christmas, |
12/15/2024 |
The Promotion
| Ekphrasis | analogy,art,extended meta |
12/13/2024 |
Clover's In the Bottom Right-Hand Corner Doing the Best with What Circumstance Brought Her
| Ekphrasis | art,extended metaphor, |
12/11/2024 |
Unwriting My Sister as a Teddy Bear
| Free verse | age,appreciation,grief,gr |
12/6/2024 |
What the Highest Bidder Forgot to Consider
| Free verse | conflict,metaphor, |
12/5/2024 |
The Light Within Earshot at the Gas Station Snack Bar
| Free verse | age,allusion,culture, |
12/5/2024 |
Undoing the Disarmament of Venus de Milo: Aphrodite Gets Her Biceps Back
| Rhyme | appreciation,art,betrayal |
11/30/2024 |
Descent and Ascent
| Free verse | care,courage,devotion,hop |
11/26/2024 |
Mythmakers Often Miss the Stop
| Free verse | body,community,courage,in |
11/24/2024 |
Held Back
| Free verse | silence, |
11/24/2024 |
Thanksgiving: Devour the Anthem
| Triolet | allegory,extended metapho |
11/24/2024 |
To My Ex-Husband: I Was Fluent in What Failed Us
| Free verse | analogy,games,metaphor,pe |
11/20/2024 |
The Anatomy of Restraint
| Free verse | analogy,birth, |
11/15/2024 |
Remember Yourself
| Free verse | allusion,analogy, |
11/15/2024 |
The Out-Shuffling of Stars and Witches and Angels
| Free verse | allusion,america,extended |
11/5/2024 |
Where I Wait for Myself
| Free verse | lost, |
10/13/2024 |
I Promise, It's Nothing Personal
| Free verse | endurance,growth,life, |
10/10/2024 |
The Remains of the Fog
| Ekphrasis | art,extended metaphor, |
9/21/2024 |
Honor Thy Father is a Punchline
| Free verse | abuse,addiction,anger,gro |
9/1/2024 |
First Date at the Melodee Drive-In
| Haibun | summer, |
8/24/2024 |
Botticelli Unmasks the Perp
| Haiku | extended metaphor, |
8/17/2024 |
I Am Anger
| Quintain (Sicilian) | analogy,anger,extended me |
8/17/2024 |
I Am Fear
| Quintain (Sicilian) | analogy,extended metaphor |
8/14/2024 |
Tapestry: My Least Favorite Word in Poetry
| Villanelle | extended metaphor,writing |
8/4/2024 |
Sown Together
| Free verse | august,green,red, |
8/2/2024 |
Breaking News: Fragments of Today
| Free verse | word play, |
7/27/2024 |
Voice Lessons
| Free verse | perspective, |
7/27/2024 |
manatee herd
| Senryu | appreciation,myth,sound, |
7/23/2024 |
Poolside Peek
| Limerick | summer, |
7/21/2024 |
Acme
| Free verse | extended metaphor, |
7/21/2024 |
Cold Comfort
| Suzette Prime | addiction,allusion,fear,f |
7/21/2024 |
A Minichu on the Dilemma of Analgesia and Weapons
| Rhyme | character,extended metaph |
7/16/2024 |
Artificial Integrity is a Bigger Threat to Community
| Free verse | allusion,character,commun |
7/16/2024 |
In the Kitchen with Merope
| Free verse | conflict,culture,extended |
7/14/2024 |
Father-Daughter Dance
| Free verse | absence,age,anger,hate,he |
7/11/2024 |
A Confession of Recipes
| Free verse | extended metaphor, |
7/5/2024 |
Arches Reflect: Pillars of Human Passage
| Sonnet | endurance,extended metaph |