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Publications

Poetry

April Fire” and “The Grand Canyon,” The Closed Eye Open.

 

“No Argument for Heaven” and “At the Grocery Store,” River Styx.

 

“First Secret” (as “The First Secret”), Kalliope.

 

“Grandma Describes Love Using Birds” and “It Came as a Blow to the Back of His Head,”

Lullwater Review.

 

Stacking Wood on Midsummer’s Eve,” Yankee.

 

“The Myth of Bright Light” and “Fox Hunting, Defined Providence.

 

Self-Portrait” and “Late Gifts” (as, “The Pine Cones We Gathered Along Highway 74”),

The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review.

 

“Clay Rose” and “Gossip,” US 1 Worksheets.

 

“My Brother and I Talk About Dogs” and “A Cheetah in the Bronx,” Kelsey Review.

 

“From the Nursing Home Pantoum,” The Raven Review.

 

“What It Sounds Like, Where It Lives” and “Another Explanation,” Jackdaw Review.

 

“Merlin,” Boudin.

 

“A Review of Romeo and Juliet,” Anacapa Review.

 

“Dream #24,” Molecule.

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“Strawberries in Winter” and “Night in the Desert,” The Christian Science Monitor.

 

“Daffodils,” Barrow Street.

 

“Six Postcards and An Explanation,”

Poetry Northwest.

 

“Last Butterfly” Poems From Here,

(Maine Public Radio Program).

 

Essays

Cross Stitch,” The Forge Literary Magazine.

 

Parables and Flash Fiction

“Half-Empty, Half-Full”

“The Dandelion’s Complaint”

“The Last Leaf”

“An Inconvenient Marriage,”

“The Old Woman and the Fire”

“The Owl and the Mouse”

“The Clever Fox”

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These and others published weekly,

Biddeford Journal Tribune (Biddeford, ME), 2015-2019.

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