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Selected Poems

Published across literary journals — from the Rising Phoenix Review to the Archipelago.

01

Born here, I am already a sinner

Archipelago

02

carving a new skull before sunshine

Coffin Bell Journal

03

Remembrall

Cool Beans Lit

04

ode to the times we felt trapped in jinxed bodies

Fifth Wheel Press

05

Before you kiss a reptile, be sure your lips are dead

Ignatian Literary Magazine

06

we, behind the barbarian borders

Loud Coffee Press (pages 6-7)

07

There's a place more than home

Metachrosis Library (Pages 28-29)

08

those days / after a successful coup

PassionFruit Review

09

bing bang(/) Genesis

Poor Yorick (page 2)

10

the shock when I see people get medals at the Olympic games

Progenitor Literary

11

Don't tell my President this is my poem.

Rising Phoenix Review

12

I, chief mourner

The Rising Phoenix Review

13

to the white Lord

The Amistad

14

To Hanson, the girl who taught me long-division & 2 other poems

The Rumen

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.”
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