Creative Writing
“All of Us,” a 74-line poem about becoming a couple after the first wife dies, won an Honorable Mention in the Oregon Poetry’s Association Spring 2015 contest. Watershed Review “Dating a Dutch Scientist” and “Gold in the Mouth” in its December 2014 issue. Several of these poems appear in Saturday Afternoons, published March 2009. My photograph, “Laundry, San Felipe,” shot in Mexico’s Yucatan, is on the book’s cover. The Harney County poems come from my spring stint as the 2009 Eastern Oregon Writer-in-Residence.
GirlFish
Tip your head
for a half lung of rarified air
while scrawny boys swim you
down and flatten your chest Read More
When We Grow Old…
We become
beasts of burden
like yaks or camels or
balding men carrying Read More
Almost First Everything
I recall
my first kiss,
first date,
first sex Read More
Silver Shoes
A trail of breadcrumbs, the Pole Star
make reliable guides
in most light,
yet today they’re hidden Read More
Swan in Bruges
Settled
like glass
on a hushed eddy,
pearlescent cloud Read More