Publications & Achievements
One Day He Asked Me How I Could Believe in God, and the Reply Didn’t Come for Years.
The first time I dreamed of Him was also the last--- I sat at a long table that seemed to go on forever gold and silver lights that seemed to say Jesus everywhere--- and then He was there, holding a man as if securing him after an early-aged heart attack. The...
A Letter to the Candidate
---in response to the 2012 presidential election...
A Poem About Writing Better Poems
The next time you write about a man speaking to an object, consider whether the object should speak back. Particularly if it is an animal. Particularly if it is a red mongoose who has just defeated two King cobras who learned how to dovetail in the dark....
Neutral Colors
---for Charles Once I had a dream we were all...
On the Outside, There is a Heart—And on the Inside, There is an Old Friend’s Funeral.
"And a man newly dead would really know. And a...
The Day My Brother was Immortalized on a Piece of Oversized Canvas
---a poem influenced by Philip Levine In that...
Your Hands, Like Discarded Feathers
That morning, you told me you were terrified of poetry as a child. You told me stories of vines, stories of the things that continue to remain. I spent the following days imaging the dark circles left in the woods behind your house, looking in. * ...
Apartment-Living
You turn in your sleep, and it is at times like these when I wish you could wake and listen: I am ill. I know there are times when you lie awake, hearing the sounds of another’s bed, hearing the sounds of children running in the streets after dark. These are...
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