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Poetry Selections
 "A Magnet Wrapped with Wire"
~~ [Theme: CONTROVERSY] I want you, but only on the frets, in the action . . .
"Appliance of Self-Analysis"
~~ [Theme: PSYCHOANALYSIS] I call him Freud . . .
"Back to the Sea"
~~ [Theme: SEA] You are the sea, one I venerate and hate in equal measure . . .
"Birds as Omens for a Change"
~~ [Theme: BIRDS] April 22: we sputter outside a Minimart in a planned community near Baltimore . . .
"Blackout"
~~ [Theme: MARRIAGE] We pass a bottle of hemp seed beer around the table . . .
"Color Me BrazenBerry"
~~ [Theme: WOMEN] The lipstick on the dressing table is my mother . . .
 "Communion with the Deceased"
~~ [Theme: DEATH] Tell me something. What good could have come from this? . . .
"Conceding to Catholicism"
~~ [Theme: INSANITY] I include your electric razor in a satchel with socks, underwear . . .
"Damn the Light"
~~ [Theme: PAIN] A man on his knees; superlative supplicant bowed before me in a sacred space . . .
"Euthanasia"
~~ [Theme: EUTHANASIA] I stared out the kitchen window that morning, thought, "Still breathing or not?" . . .
"Faux Yawps at the National Zoo"
~~ [Theme: ANIMALS] My invitation to the Women's Club "Choux in the Zoo" event was obligatory . . .
"Flirting with Felicity and Turandot"
~~ [Theme: OPERA] Isn't there something oxymoronic about an exhausted insomniac . . .
"Fresco Alfresco"
~~ [Theme: FAITH] I am Michelangelo. I want nothing more than to lie on my back . . .
"Ghost Writer in Communicado"
~~ [Theme: WRITING] In the corner of his room at his desk with single chair . . .
"Going South"
~~ [Theme: PASSION] I stare out the streaky garden window . . .
"Her Only Staple"
~~ [Theme: SORROW] The totality of her life -- all that she is plus the sum of what she feels . . .
"If All is Dukkha, Why is Buddha Always Smiling?"
~~ [Theme: SISTERHOOD] One carries a roll of wax paper; the other, good karma in bags . . .
"ill, fated, maiden"
~~ [Theme: TITANIC] Water is a mirror and visions become reflective . . .
"Lady Badr al-Burdur's Lamp"
~~ [Theme: COURAGE] You flew from him with no remorse . . .
"Left-Side Deaf"
~~ [Theme: LISTENING] Born left-side deaf births an odd kind of voodoo for you . . .
"Life on the Row"
~~ [Theme: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT] It is always night at the ocean, in my mind . . .
"Ludicrous"
~~ [Theme: ABSURDITY] Not a single aspect . . .
"Luna-tic"
~~ [Theme: THE MOON] Victim of gravitational pull. Consigned to concentric orbit . . .
"Places Where I Have Not Swum"
~~ [Theme: SWIMMING] YWCA . . . head bowed, standing beside the pool, I said no to all invitations . . .
"Property Rights"
~~ [Theme: HOME] Absentminded flips through canvases at the sidewalk sale . . .
"Safe to Accept Either Opinion"
~~ [Theme: OPINIONS] I adjust the light . . . so it beats directly on two letters I’d received . . .
"That and the word beautiful"
~~ [Theme: BEAUTY] She says, “You are beautiful.” It is the first Thursday in May . . .
"The Harlot Visits the Cemetery ('Til Death Do Us Part)"
~~ [Theme: INFIDELITY] A lock of hair lifted by November wind falls across the cigarette . . .
"The Suitcase"
~~ [Theme: ESCAPE] It sits in the closet. Sometimes I do too . . .
"The Twelve Year Victimization of Violet"
~~ [Theme: CHILDREN] My relationship with Violet is the longest I’ve managed to sustain . . .
"'Til It Comes Back Around"
~~ [Theme: SUMMER] push coconut sunscreen to back of cabinet; take last whiff . . .
"Toward, Not Away"
~~ [Theme: TRAVEL] They run, the man and the girl . . .
"Two Women in the Garden of the Ward"
~~ [Theme: ILLNESS] On restful mornings, Emma and I tie crimson bandannas around our heads . . .
"White Only Deflects All Other Colors"
~~ [Theme: FLOWERS] The closer I move to menopause . . .
Prose Selections
"At Home in Locales Beyond Oaxaca"
~~ [Theme: CHARACTER]
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THE AUTHOR:
~~ Serve as a Monitor for Wild Poetry Forum [Position accepted: November 1998]
~~ Served as a Guest Editor for the December 2000 edition of Stirring, [V:2,E:12]
~~ Serve as Associate Editor/Poetry Editor for Stirring [Position accepted: December 2000]
~~ Served as POW Contest Editor for TheCriticalPoet [Position accepted: January 2001]
THE WORK:
"Conceding to Catholicism"
~~ Featured in the August 2000 edition of Stirring, [V:2,E:8]
"Fresco Alfresco"
~~ Featured in the August 2000 edition of The Eclipse, [V:1,N:4]
~~ Winner of the Sundress Poetry Slam, July 26, 2000
"'Til It Comes Back Around"
~~ Featured on the Alpha Poet's Page at The Poet's Porch, [8/00 to 5/01]
"Euthanasia"
~~ Featured on the Alpha Poet's Page at The Poet's Porch, [2/01 to 5/01]
~~ Featured in the Spring 2001 edition of interweave (zine), [I:2]
"Luna-tic"
~~ Winner of the Poem of the Week contest at TheCriticalPoet, September 11, 2000
"White Only Deflects All Other Colors"
~~ Winner of the Poem of the Week contest at Wild Poetry Forum, September 18, 2000
~~ Winner of the Sundress Poetry Slam, October 18, 2000
~~ Featured in the November 2000 edition of 3rd Muse Poetry Journal, [I:2]
"The Twelve Year Victimization of Violet"
~~ Featured at Kookamonga Square
"Birds as Omens for a Change"
~~ Featured in the October 2000 edition of Poems Niederngasse
"Flirting with Felicity and Turandot"
~~ Abridged version featured in Oct/Nov 2000 edition of Eclectica Magazine, [V:4,N:4]
"Color Me BrazenBerry"
~~ Featured in the February 2001 edition of Mentress Moon
~~ Featured in the Spring 2001 edition of interweave (zine), [I:2]
"The Harlot Visits the Cemetery"
"The Suitcase"
~~ Featured in the February 2001 edition of Mentress Moon
"Safe to Accept Either Opinion"
~~ Featured in the Winter 2000 edition of Verse Libre: Free Verse Quarterly, [V:1, E:1]
"A Magnet Wrapped with Wire"
~~ Featured in the Jan./Feb. 2001 edition of Friction Magazine, [V:3,N:1]
"ill, fated, maiden"
"Left-Side Deaf"
~~ Featured in the Spring 2001 edition of Templar Phoenix Literary Review, [V:2,N:1]
"Damn the Light"
"Her Only Staple"
"Ludicrous"
~~ Featured in the July/August 2001 edition of Wired Art from Wired Hearts
"If All is Dukkha, Why is Buddha Always Smiling?"
~~ Featured Poem of the Month in the July 2001 edition of The Writer's Hood
"Lady Badr al-Budur's Lamp"
~~ Featured in the Summer 2001, Issue 7 edition of Gumball Poetry
"Communion with the Deceased"
~~ Second Place, June 2002 / Poem of the Year 2002 in the IBPC
~~ Featured in the September 2002 edition of The Writer's Hood
"Two Women in the Garden of the Ward"
~~ Featured in three candles
"Life on the Row"
~~ First Place, July 2003 in the IBPC
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