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I’m working on a short story collection as well as two as-yet-unpublished novels: Try Everything in a Cartoon Romance and A Short Time to Be There.
I also have a micro-poetry blog called a gnarled oak, where I post haiku and other short poem-like things, mostly about birds and nature.
I post some of my poetry and stories on this site: click here for the poems & here for the stories.
Publications & Other Places to Find My Writing:
2010
- Three Poems: “A Necklace for the Goddess of the Empty Sea,” “The Desert Years,” & “Galveston, Last Summer” – Poets for Living Waters
- “The sun, threaded with clouds” – a handful of stones
- “Highway 73 to Port Arthur” – a handful of stones
- “Trickle Down Hope” & “Deeper into Texas” – America Remembered (chapbook anthology from Virgogray Press)
- “On a bed of leaves” & “Hidden by the fog”- tinywords (Issue 10.1)
- “I-10 Eastbound” & “Miles (Never Once Imagined)” – Carcinogenic Poetry
- “Portsmouth, 1988″ & “Newport, 1990″ – Poem2day
- “Along the highway” – Four and Twenty
- “Optimist” & “My boots crunch the ice” – Four and Twenty (vol. 3, #3)
- “Visions of a Healthy Planet” – qarrtsiluni (“Health” issue)
2009
- a gnarled oak (Coyote Mercury Press)
- “The Man Who Spoke the Law” – qarrtsiluni (“Words of Power” issue)
- Night Heron stone – a handful of stones
- “An Economy of Language” – qarrtsiluni (“Economy” issue)
- Grackle stone – a handful of stones
- “Good Authority” – Bolts of Silk
- “God Hates Grackles,” “Lines Discovered in an Aging Ornithologist’s Field Journal,” and “Circling Vultures” – Thirteen Myna Birds
- “We Talk of Trains” – ouroboros review (issue #3 in which my photograph “Train in Round Rock” also appears)
- “My Tourist Yard” – Bolts of Silk
- “Turtle Stone” – a handful of stones
- “Mockingbird Stone” – a handful of stones
- “A Texas Highway in Springtime” – Bolts of Silk
- “Beet Stone” – a handful of stones
- “Time to Leave” – Postal Poetry
- “Kestrel Stone” – a handful of stones
Earlier
- “A Perfect World” – Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing (Originally published on my site as “Back from Camp”)
- “The Bridge” – Good Gosh Almighty!
- A Place Without a Postcard – available at most online booksellers
also:
I used to contribute guest posts mostly about Texas politics to In the Pink Texas under the very clever pseudonym Coyote Mercury. Those posts are now buried somewhere in the Texas Monthly archives, I assume.
For about a year (1999-2000), I contributed poems and stories to a now-defunct online literary journal/writers’ community called The Sound of What? Some of those poems are here:
Scattering Gran – a funeral in the woods
Dream Ships – a recurring nightmare
