Poetry

2011 : Online

Why I Want to Go North
Frostwriting #6

"what’s north of here anyway? / icebergs and drafty huts, moose and geese and secret isolated labs."

2010 : Print

heroine
Chroma #11

"if I could / bury myself in crumbling cities / swallow lava and give birth to birds"

highheeledantiquedollshoes
Bewilderbliss #3

"I want a woman with blood in her shoes / calves taut, sacrificial, bright with copper."

This Glasnost
Bewilderbliss #3

"dissident he says / usurper he says / this is a home not a coup."

the church of dirty dancefloors
.Cent #15

"have faith in your words: / singing till your breath gives out, / pictionary nights."

2010 : Online

you should grow your eyebrows
Vinyl Poetry #2

"after a month my eyebrows were fat and dark as burnt sausages."

this is my religion
Vinyl Poetry #2

"her / moonlit / sleeping / face"

Reactor No. 4 (Ghosts of Chernobyl)
Willows Wept Review #9

"Trees reclaim, / open their soft jaws / around houses."

My Lady's Child
Foundling Review

"We sleep with limbs straight as cutlery / on an empty plate, fingers slotted tight / as wicker."

Let Us Compare Mythologies
Word Riot

"and Queen Victoria’s musty-petticoated skin"

Dear Guy Who Scribbled All Over His Questionnaire, Put His Religion as 'Jedi', and Asked Why the Police Aren't Investigating Supernatural Crimes
The Legendary

"Oh, you rebel. You beautiful, / crazy rebel. Let's move to a cabin / in the woods and make / sweet love all day."

said the sea-witch
Goblin Fruit

"but grace is enough. beauty is enough, and legs for dancing. legs for opening."

I Wanted To Write A Poem
Referential

"drawing / owls on t-shirts, drawling / basslines over riot grrrl"

Lord Feintheart
Cabinet des Fées

"smoking kills, but so / do his cheekbones / in the light of a shared match."

2009 : Print

Baby Catalogue
Popshot #3

"we will learn to clean, paint, rhyme, wake, sing, quiet."

the refuge of art
Gutter #1

"too old for a nymphet"

move slow, hold fast
Popshot #2

"i-you-we / this precarious treehut / filled with snowmelt and beesong"

Escape Artist
Existere #29

"to seep ankledeep while the underpass walls scream"

Reactor No. 4 (Ghosts of Chernobyl)
Existere #29

"Prometheus stole fire. / This milk, this wheat, this ground. / A thousand x-rays."

sunday morning lie-in
Chronogram

"I'm staying down here / until I make her sing / louder than church"

2009 : Online

The Bride-Choosing
Salome

"I chose her for the way she / sang horses to sleep"

The Giantess
Salome

"She consumes little elfboys / one by one, like bonbons / pop-popping between her teeth."

Four Stories I Cannot Write
Writers' Bloc

"condense / orgasm / slicks / stacked / theory / unmade"

homemakers
Likestarlings

"when they take everything / we will have what we built"

Some Small History
Likestarlings

"we’re telling symbols / like house ground sea / like bitch queer dropout"

Hush
Likestarlings

"driving to the moon : playing bass in a punk band : befriending a t-rex"

the third wave
Soundzine

"writing clever puns / does not make you clever"

S/he
Soundzine

"Our fathers are upstairs polishing their rifles. They hunt at dawn."

and the dish ran away with
Soundzine

"the way I curve / under the moon, the way / I curve myself into you."

Dear Tonsils
Swamp

"hazardous waste is / that really what you call / a happy ending"

Notes from a Paper Textbook
From East to West

"use abbreviations. / become fluid. / change your process."

on watching darla smoke out of the window
Alba

"smoke braids with steaming tea"