Poetry
“Poetry is the place where language stops explaining and starts telling the truth it doesn’t yet understand.”
Publications
Plant Me Where the Wild FLowers Grow
Winner of the 2024 Research and Creativity Symposium: MSU Billings
Form: Narrative lyric with elegiac and gothic tones
An extended meditation on despair, mortality, and transformation that seeks beauty and release through surrender to the natural world.
A Hymn Of Moss and Honey
Form: Lyric free verse with mythic and devotional elements
A sensuous hymn that merges body, nature, and cosmology to reimagine desire as both sacred and feral.
Because I Could Not Breathe Without You
Form: Emulative prose poem
A love poem that layers devotion, memory, and pop-cultural reference to celebrate intimacy as sustenance and resurrection.
Longing For A Strangers Touch
Silent Spark Press... Vol 3 Pg.32 2022
Form: Confessional free verse lyric
A vulnerable meditation on aging, emotional distance, and unmet intimacy, tracing how love erodes into absence while still yearning for reconnection and recognition.
Like "Butter" On A Butter Dish
Form: Narrative free verse with emulation
A braided meditation on breakage, domestic memory, and survival that reframes damage as texture rather than failure.
Come To Me in the Silence Of the NIght
Form: Lyric free verse with repetition and incantatory structure
A meditative invocation that explores intimacy, longing, and self-unraveling through repetition, fragmentation, and the sacred hush where language gives way to desire.
A Letter from An Anxious Woman
Form: Epistolary free verse with anaphora
A relentless, breath-driven letter that uses repetition to embody anxiety, resistance, and the refusal of imposed silence.
Almost Blue
Form: Prose poem / lyric fragment
A surreal meditation on taste, memory, and recognition, where sensory experience dissolves logic and edges toward the ineffable.
They Burned My Village to the Ground
Form: Fragmented lyric free verse
A stark, disjunctive meditation on inherited violence, whiteness, and survival, using fractured syntax and temporal rupture to enact the rhythms of trauma and endurance.
Firelight
Form: Lyric free verse
A quiet reckoning with love as both destruction and rebirth, tracing how endurance begins not in spectacle but in warmth.
Smoke Signals
Form: Sestina-inspired free verse
A cyclical exploration of addiction and desire that mirrors ritual and compulsion through repetition and sonic return.
In Which the Scale Is Lifted but Nothing Is Named
Form: Ekphrastic lyric in verse
An ekphrastic meditation on balance, judgment, and uncertainty that lingers in the suspended moment before meaning is assigned.
