Poems

2026

COMING SOONAmerican Pop Culture Almanac: 1776-2026 / “I Always Thought We Were Jack & Karen”

2025

The Broadkill Review / “Core Memory”

Querencia Press Spring 2025 Anthology / “When We Were 16 Swimming at the Lake and You Said I Held On to You Too Tight” (reprint)

Wicked Gay Ways / “(Fill Me) With Your Song”

The Poet Heroic / “When We Were 16 Swimming at the Lake and You Said I Held On to You Too Tight”

2024

Salem for All / “Blessings”

Impossible Archetype / “Birds on a Wire”

Snowflake Magazine / “The Leftovers”

One Art / “The Impact of Gravity” “The Gift”

2023

The Orchards Poetry Journal [Winter 2023] / “Willful Ignorance”

Bear Paw Arts Journal / “Sparklers” “Monday Commute”

Mother Nature is Burning (Anthology by Sunday Mornings at the River) / “The Oracle” “Parable” “The Last Night on Earth”

& Change / “Drought” “His Holy Trinity”

Stone Pacific Zine / “Christening” “Cloudy Fragments (Notes App After Hookup on May 3, 2022)” “Anything But”

Not Ghosts, But Spirits Volume III (Anthology by Querencia Press) / “Ink” “Lovework” “Live Bait”

Door is a Jar Magazine [Issue 28] / “Nomad” “Roadside Assistance”

Fevers of the Mind / “Omens of 99E” “The Tinman” “Marked” “Revamp” “Resilience”

Under a Warm Green Linden / “When She Shines”

Ridgeline Review / “Chew on This”

Fifth Wheel Press / “On Creation”

One Art / “Barter” “In Response to Alex (Pencil & Oil Pastels, 2007)”

The Hellebore / “Inventory”

Tilted House / “Quarantine Lover”

Qwerty / “Willful Ignorance: A Gay Scavenger Hunt”

The Storms [Issue 2] / “Mourning the Dead Cat”

Chapter House Journal / “Just in Case”

2022

Snowflake Magazine DIGITAL | PRINT / “The Atlas of Longing”

Unstamatic / “Zombie”

orangepeel / “A Song Unanswered”

Querencia Press Autumn 2022 Anthology DIGITAL | PRINT / “And He Said He Wouldn’t Have a Gay Son” “The Yangtze” “Hunger”

Sage Cigarettes / “Howl”

Flyover Country / “Birds”

Rabid Oak / “Conversation with a Grandmother”

Emerge Literary Journal / “Uncoiled” “Flying in Dreamland” “Interloper”

Limp Wrist / “Survival of the Fittest” “Baptism”

Stonecoast Review / “Trophy”

Door is a Jar Magazine / “Crushed”

Idle Ink / “Development”

Resurrection Magazine / “Under the Sea” “The A-to-Z’s of Losing You” “One Last Polka”

The Broadkill Review / “Tongue” “Time Bending” [BEST OF THE NET NOM]

One Art / “Omen”

The Jupiter Review / “Vantage Point”

2021

Beyond Queer Words 2021 (Anthology by Beyond Words Magazine) / “The Art of Leaving”

Sledgehammer Literary Journal / “Caught”

Harpy Hybrid Review / “The Singer” “The Creators”

Wine Cellar Press / “Swallowed”

Paddler Press / “After All This Pressure”

Fevers of the Mind 5: Overcome DIGITAL | PRINT / “Birthright” “Sunflower Meditations”

Fahmidan Journal / “Hate Crime”

Ink Pantry / “French Fries” “Read My Lips” “Shower Drain Lovers” “Searching” “Geppetto”

2020

The Raven Review / “Wolf”

Nymphs / “Fire”

Minute Magazine / “Scorpion”

Idle Ink / “Sister”

Dodging the Rain / “When I Dream of the Ocean” “Tribe” “Father”

Prismatica Magazine / “Chameleon Woman” “Jenga” “The Sun”

Ink Pantry / “Irene” “Splinters” “Garden of the Gods”

Marías at Sampaguitas / “Wind”

The Mark Literary Review / “Earth”

Active Muse / “Mother”

Anti-Heroin Chic / “Werewolf Mask” “The Bones of a Dancer” “Chasing Sunshine” “There are Two Types of Gay Characters in Blockbuster Movies”