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Hot Springs Poet Laureate & Author of Five Collections -

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Published Poems

(click titles to read, listed in order of publication)

For Maya, on this, The Morning of Your Death

Willing My Body Parts

Planting an Acorn after a Massacre

That Day I was Jesus Christ (Total Eclipse of the Heart)

Abandoned Seeds

Falling in Love with My Body

From Inside the Tower

Meditation on a Canoe

i forgot my name

Valentine for a Vacant Womb

Abandoned Seeds

Every Black Boy is a Lion

Becoming Vapor and Rain

Changing My Own Name / Kai & Kimberly

Everything Silver

Dry-spell Ocean

Blood-forgetting

Becoming Vapor and Rain (&) You Become Me Become You

Dad & The Dalai Lama

Washed-Up Dinosaurs

How to be Fat and Beautiful

Once in a Blue Moon

An Open Letter to my Arm Flaps

Water Fountain Witness

The Pulse of a Rainbow

I May Never Push You Out

If We Could Turn Back Time

Swastikas into Windows

Walls in Midair

this is a painting

this is how to eat your past

When Everything is About to Burn

Creating a Rainbow for the Whole World to Hold

Body As Warship

Bluebirds Renting the Squash Studio

More Like Magic

Where are The Warriors

Incandescent II

Planting Seeds and Tasting Flowers During the End of Days

Today I Washed My Hands in a Mucky Koi Pond

Smiling With My Eyes

Brighter When Wet

What Stitches Us Together

A Baptism Reflecting the Celestial

Water for Martians

Trying on Your Eyebrows (for Frida Kahlo)

Filling Spice Jars As Your Wife *** POETRY MAGAZINE OMG ***

Not Enough Words for Light

Makeshift Memorial

Microcosm Macrochaos

The Language of Hitting Bottom

Ghost Clothes Forever

This America, How Much More Can We Take?

I Find My 2020 Glasses from New Years

My Whole Soul Is In It

About the Author

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