Selected Poems

“I’m a broken animal—nothing eats me.”

Poetry

“Passerine”
Sep. 2022

“The dog’s legs, as if gas flames, waver / in her sleep.”

Bennington Review

“Black Light Nocturne”
No. 15, 2025

“If a social worker were to ask me / to draw my house, it would be / all one box, the farmhouse /
and the barn.”

The Adroit Journal

“Kilter”
Apr. 2025

“is sentience / the wonder of sonar / or knowledge of pain?”

Poetry Northwest

“Tadarida”
7 Feb. 2024

“I know his markings, the text of his feathers—”

Gulf Coast

“Elevated Flare”
Summer/Fall 2023

“When the salmon is ready / it is cerise.”

Boston Review

“Sonnet for My Son”
26 Feb. 2014

“My people have a history / of compliance & porcelain dogs.”

World Literature Today

“Little Perpetrator (3)”
Mar. 2022

“And so / my father rode the devil / out of the Kawasaki”

The Paris Review

“The Dream of the Road”
Summer 2013