mischievous spirits; / associates of Cupid, 

First published in Puerto del Sol, issue 61.1, Spring 2026

Dad keeps birds / Florida Guy

First published in Southeast Review, issue 44.1 Spring 2026

your pawpaw didn’t run shine through 
these hollows for you to be a bootlicker

First published in Anti-Heroin Chic, May 2026 issue

We are fledgling / where we cried eagle

First published in Watershed Review, Spring 2026

Where to break is to begin

First published in Sonora Review, March 2026

image: artwork by Shannon Taylor

he breaches, launches me by my foot into the glee of antigravity,
an extension of him, a splash.

First published in Southern Humanities Review, Volume 58, Number 4, December 2025 and nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2026

Chromatic prism, ultraviolet light

First published in Burningword Literary Magazine, July 2025, Issue 115

Oh undulation / I fold my hands to you

First published in The Art of Chestnut Review, Volume 1 2019-2024

How that body / That grew me / Like a hunger

First published in CALYX: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women Vol. 35:1, March 2025.

a teen wearing the heat like charmeuse

Published in Issue 23 of Friction: The Gods Issue 2025
artwork by Hailey Renee Brown

you are
dying just like me.

Published in TAR’s Spring 2024 issue #216 (late release).

bursting fat with clustered rage in the late heat of May.

First published in When Flowers Sing: A Poetry Anthology, in Autumn 2024.

I wasn’t scared / then / but now I’m a mother / I know / I could / never

First published in Qu: A Contemporary Literary Magazine from Queens University, Charlotte Issue 20, Volume 20, Summer 2024.

I will remind her of the round fullness coming after, that difference is a measure of joy.

First published in Camas Summer 2024.

Her tracks zig zag like stitches along the skin of the earth. Each hoof pressed like two fingers rutting the ground.

First published in Issue 1 October, 2023 in Broken Antler Magazine.

when the gentle current is pounded into a foaming rage. You foment, you struggle.

First published March 14, 2023 in MER Journal.

 the smell of diesel and aged piss when taken together has a certain joie de vivre, a holiness.

First published in issue 49, Summer 2023 of Kestrel.

undone and redoing at all minutes

First Published in the Made at Home 2022 issue of the Berkeley Poetry Review.

sacrifice oneself to the antediluvian pull of petaled poetry written with a pen only a creator could fathom

First published in Autumn 2022, Volume 4, Number 2 of Chestnut Review.

My body is a craft of memory, imprinted by generational shifts, not wrought to shuttle armageddon.

First published in Volume 48, Number 3, Autumn 2022 of California Quarterly