This poem appeared in the Summer 2021 issue of Slant.
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The scars on the wood on this table beneath
My mug tell no good tales, they tell
No good stories but with dark grooves they cut
Constellations in a dirty sky.
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This poem appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of The Lyric Magazine and received the publication’s Leslie Mellichamp Prize.
Follow the shore as it rises alee,
Bereft of the wind and deprived of the sea.
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What if the features splayed across my face
Did not do justice to my character?
‘They are all male’ and ‘They are all in wigs’
Tom Lubbock wrote, but they are not the same.
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What does he deliver, the postman? Unfinished pale streaks coming together in one hand, Blood red outlining the other, blue etches that show the sky, What do they possess? What did he see in those beady dark eyes that followed him around the studio, Pink face vomiting green beard?