Made a Fool

"Made a Fool" is a poem inspired by the Fool card of the tarot deck, which is number zero. Watch closely for the pun of the word that contains both letters and numbers. I identify with the fool, wanting to enjoy life and be a little silly while those around me can be so dang ambitious and serious. You have to scroll down quite a ways for it: Allegro Poetry Issue 3 March 2015.

Accident

And here is my first publication for 2015, a poem titled "Accident" published by Hermes Poetry Journal. The story of this poem is true--for better or worse!

A Wheel in the Sky

Here's my final 2014 publication: a speculative story about battling technology with mythology in Devilfish Review.

Moving

"Moving" is an appropriate poem to end the year that I wrote while contemplating the Death card in tarot and am so happy to have published in The Pedestal Magazine, one of my top favorite literary journals. I am still waiting to have an auspicious dream on New Year's Eve in the Japanese way (to dream of Mt. Fuji, eagles, or eggplant, in that order). But there are also useful dreams and nightmares that help us find our true paths in life. So, may your dreams either be useful (like my poem "Moving") or auspicious. Happy 2015!

Limitless out of the Dusk

My short story titled "Limitless out of the Dusk" (from Whitman's poem "When Lilacs Last Bloomed")is now online in Issue #13 of Waccamaw Journal.

Essay and 3 Poems in TIQ

The supportive editors at Turtle Island Quarterly have nominated my essay that incorporates three poems for a 2016 Pushcart Prize! You can read them in Issue #6 Chapter #2 of Turtle Island Quarterly

The Bar-Girl

I am thrilled to have my poem about Monet's famous painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergères appear in a wonderful art magazine with a terrific illustration. Check out the summer issue of COLLECT and leave a message.

2nd Prize Poem

My poem "Strip" won second prize in the 2014 Gemini Magazine Poetry Open. Do you think my being a Gemini helped? Check it out at GEMINI MAGAZINE.

New short story online May 19

Please visit the wonderful Read Short Fiction site and comment on my story "Replacement" featured this May 2014. Consider yourself warned that this is a literary story and includes a sex scene and some mild drug references. But I want to hear about the lines that made you laugh.

This Is Just to Add

Okay, every poet has written a response to William Carlos Williams' famous poem "This Is Just to Say," and now I'm one of them. See what you think of my take on the current edition of Turtle Island Quarterly. Yes, I really do have weasels (fishers) in my back yard.

Morning Storm

Here's a poem I submitted for a theme of "liminal spaces" now online at Wolf Willow Journal. Here in New England, everyone has had enough winter (still some ice in my yard--still1) but I love the photo of Central Park.

The Seven Deadly Holidays

Here is a short and feisty humorous essay before the holiday season begins . . . with Hallowrath. The author photo is me in my incredible yet convincing Halloween costume. The whole Issue #10 is themed on the seven deadly, so enjoy some sin served up from Portland, Oregon's own Penduline.

EVOTZ2

That's the title of an experimental creative nonfiction piece now published in theNewerYork's Electric Encyclopedia of Experimental Literature (the EEEL). Read the middle column for the core narrative, and read the flanking columns as footnotes to the text. Post your thoughts from the link at the top right of the page. (I love their illustration for this!) And, yes, the title is an actual line from the Snellen eye chart: Evotz2

What Crows Don't Know

That's the title of my poem that made it into the inaugural issue of Turtle Island Quarterly. I love so many of the poems they chose. Be sure to check out William Doreski, Michael Spring, and many more.