daily prayer the cry of the cicada Stardust Issue 58
Month: January 2024
Prune Juice 2021
rain delay-- tic-tac-toe on a baseball Prune Juice Issue 34, July 2021
Cattails 2022
faint footsteps . . . the call of a dark-eyed junco Cattails, April 2022, pg 8
Prune Juice 2022
holding my breath my lover gives me hers
chewing on God my mouth empty of bread
Prune Juice Issue 37, July 2022
Kingfisher 2022
bone rosary one after another raindrops Kingfisher Issue 5 April 2022, pg 36
Under the Bashō 2023
Joyful Mysteries – a sequence spring morning the quiet fiat on her lips leaping gazelle the fig begins to ripen midnight the stillness of a newborn’s cries pair of turtle doves a mother presents her child temple courts a mother rushes to her son
The Luminous Mysteries – a sequence salted with fire the Jordan River aglow another cup of wine and another… mother’s dancing hearing the good news the bricklayer lays another brick mountain top the sun rising overhead breaking bread the table in silence
Under the Bashō 2023
Haiku Dialogue 2022
field of stars our hands parting Haiku Dialogue November 23, 2022
Kingfisher 2023
hiding her wedding dress— Feast of Mary Undoer of Knots Kingfisher Issue 8
Heliosparrow: Poetry Journal 2023
burning scriptures I obtain the Word
waning light through the birch— I take residence in the gospel
candle flickering in her eyes— the priest lifts the host
Cattails 2023
carrying his casket the ground still frozen Cattails October 2023, pg 36