Barrelhouse Magazine, Volume 25, Spring 2025
Leafing Through Jack Gilbert’s The Dance Most of All for Inspiration

1. Write a poem about the place you are and who you’re with. Preferably when you’re in a place you like to be, a place where you find great beauty.

Jabberwock Review, Volume 42, Issue 1, Summer/Fall 2021
Skittles

Skittles was a rescue dog. That’s what the owner told me the first time we met. Though met, I suppose, isn’t the right word. We didn’t introduce ourselves, shake hands, exchange names. We were simply heading the same direction, walking to the elementary school playground on a Saturday morning.

Puerto Del Sol, Volume 54, Issue 1, Spring 2020
If, On an Afternoon, Then
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize

It was only when she started to change the sheets every Thursday evening that he began to wonder if it was possible that she was having an affair.