Many thanks to the editors, publishers and curators of all these journals, zines, sites and anthologies for publishing my work.
If there are direct links to the work, the titles are linked. Otherwise, links go to the journal’s site or the issue’s home page. You can skip directly to poetry, short stories, essays, articles & assorted prose, photographs, or videos. There is a separate page for my books.
Poetry
2023
“Homo Neanderthalensis” Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY (Dec 2023). Nominated for Best of the Net 2024.
2018
“The Grackle Tree” Austin 360 (Jul 2018)
“Quiscalus Mexicanus,” “Say Grackle,” & “The Grackle Tree” Grackle Call (Apr 2018)
“sometimes coyotes” Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY (Jan 2018)
2017
“Ode to a Cheap Blue Guitar” Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY (Feb 2017)
“The Singer” One Sentence Poems (Feb 2017)
“Resolution” Praxis Magazine (Jan 2017)
2016
“Coyote’s Bone” Zoomorphic (Sep 2016 – Issue 6)
“Blown Away” Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY (Sep 2016)
What Stranger Miracles White Knuckle Press (Jun 2016)
2015
“Music Lessons” Right Hand Pointing (Nov 2015 – Issue 92: Numantia)
Six October Stones Origami Poems Project (2015)
“Made or Just Happened” Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY (Sep 2015)
“Sonnet Found in a Road Atlas” Verbatim Found Poetry (Jun 2015)
“a hundred miles out” tinywords (Apr 2015, Issue 15.1)
“All the Way” Synchronized Chaos (Mar 2015)
“Three Scenes from the Road” The Lake (Mar 2015)
“God Hates Grackles” Texas Monthly (Feb 2015)
“Arctic Front” One Sentence Poems (Feb 2015)
“The Wanderer” One Sentence Poems (Feb 2015)
“The Gear Turner’s Work” Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY (Feb 2015)
“Lazarus Jewelbox” Synchronized Chaos (Feb 2015)
“To Call the Goddess” Synchronized Chaos (Feb 2015)
“I’ll Race the Fiercest Gulls” Synchronized Chaos (Feb 2015)
“Ghazal for a Nearly Forgotten Rain Goddess” Synchronized Chaos (Feb 2015)
2014
“Sorrow” Right Hand Pointing (Dec 2014 – Issue 82: an absence at the center)
“Trigger” Poem Your Heart Out Words Dance Publishing anthology (Dec 2014)
“Ghazal for Seven Goddesses” Carcinogenic Poetry (Sep 2014)
“Walking Down the Night” Red Wolf Journal (Sep 2014 – Issue 3: Celebration & Ritual)
“Fleeting” Verbatim Poetry (Apr 2014)
“Ghazal for a Nameless Stream” Red Wolf Journal (Mar 2014 – Issue 1: The Art of Habitation)
“Ghazal of Treaty Oak” Red Wolf Journal (Mar 2014 – Issue 1: The Art of Habitation)
“The Backyard at Sunset” Red Wolf Journal (Mar 2014 – Issue 1: The Art of Habitation)
“The Rope Swing” CSHS (Mar 2014 – Issue 1)
“Here Comes a Twister” CSHS (Mar 2014 – Issue 1)
“Flags of Convenience” CSHS (Mar 2014 – Issue 1)
2013
“Driftwood” Right Hand Pointing (Dec 2013 – Issue 70: Driftwood)
“The Cattle Egret” qarrtsiluni (May 2013 – Animals in the City issue)
2012
“moonlight haze” A Blackbird Sings: A Book of Short Poems Woodsmoke Press (Sep 2012)
“windshield rain” A Blackbird Sings: A Book of Short Poems Woodsmoke Press (Sep 2012)
“empty park bench” A Blackbird Sings: A Book of Short Poems Woodsmoke Press (Sep 2012)
“if there are angels” feathers (Apr 2012)
2011
“Winter Solstice” Curio Poetry (Dec 2011)
“In the Time of the Automobile.” Curio Poetry (Dec 2011)
“Sentences and Corrections.” qarrtsiluni (Jul 2011 – Imprisonment Issue)
“The Grackle Tree.” Nothing. No One. Nowhere (Apr 2011. No.2)
“Dear Old Stockholm.” qarrtsiluni (Apr 2011 – Translation Issue)
“In the morning, before the sun.” Pay Attention: A River of Stones Anthology (Mar 2011)
“Pale sky.” Pay Attention: A River of Stones Anthology (Mar 2011)
“Greyhound Joey vs. The Grackle.” Houston Literary Review (Feb 2011)
“North Through Fog.” Houston Literary Review (Feb 2011)
2010
“Night at the Interstate Diner.” qarrtsiluni (Dec 2010 – The Crowd issue)
“A Necklace for the Goddess of the Empty Sea.” Poets for Living Waters (Aug 2010)
“The Desert Years.” Poets for Living Waters (Aug 2010)
“Galveston, last Summer.” Poets for Living Waters (Aug 2010)
“The sun, threaded with clouds.” a handful of stones (Aug 2010)
“Highway 73 to Port Arthur.” a handful of stones (Jul 2010)
“Deeper into Texas.” America Remembered (Virgogray* Press Chapbook Anthology Jul 2010)
“Trickle Down Hope.” America Remembered (Virgogray* Press Chapbook Anthology Jul 2010)
“Hidden by the fog.” tinywords (Jun 2010 – Issue 10.1)
“On a bed of leaves.” tinywords (Jun 2010 – Issue 10.1)
“Miles (Never Once Imagined).” Carcinogenic Poetry (May 2010)
“I-10 Eastbound.” Carcinogenic Poetry (May 2010)
“Newport, 1990.” Poem2Day (May 2010)
“Portsmouth, 1988.” Poem2Day (May 2010)
“Along the highway.” Four and Twenty (Mar 2010)
“Optimist.” Four and Twenty (Mar 2010 – Vol. 3 No. 3)
“My boots crunch the ice.” Four and Twenty (Mar 2010 – Vol. 3 No. 3)
“Visions of a Healthy Planet.” qarrtsiluni (Feb 2010 – Health issue)
2009
“A night heron.” a handful of stones (Sep 2009)
“An Economy of Language.” qarrtsiluni (Aug 2009 – Economy issue)
“Grackles spill across the sky.” a handful of stones (Aug 2009)
“Good Authority.” Bolts of Silk (Aug 2009)
“Lines Discovered in an Aging Ornithologist’s Field Journal.” Thirteen Myna Birds (Jul 2009)
“Circling Vultures.” Thirteen Myna Birds (Jul 2009)
“We Talk of Trains.” ouroboros review (Jul 2009 – No. 3)
“My Tourist Yard.” Bolts of Silk (Jun 2009)
“Every morning.” a handful of stones (Jun 2009)
“Mockingbirds mimic the fire alarm.” a handful of stones (May 2009)
“A Texas Highway in Springtime.” Bolts of Silk (May 2009)
“The first time cutting into a beet.” a handful of stones (Mar 2009)
“Time to Leave.” Postal Poetry (Feb 2009)
“The kestrel is out again.” a handful of stones (Feb 2009)
Short Stories
“Nicky Rose Driving South” Crack the Spine Literary Magazine (July 2016 – Issue 196)
“The Man Who Spoke the Law.” qarrtsiluni (Oct 2009 – Words of Power issue)
“God Hates Grackles” Thirteen Myna Birds (Jul 2009)
Essays, Articles & Assorted Prose
“Reflections on ‘The End'” and other essays. Take2 Guide to Lost. (Take2 Publishing, Sep 2015)
“Notes Made on an iPhone while Rocking My Son to Sleep, July 2011.” qarrtsiluni (Aug 2012 – The Fragments issue)
“The Minor Leagues.” qarrtsiluni (Oct 2010 – The Crowd issue)
“Thoughts about Self-Publishing.” Author! Author! (Jan 2010)
“A Perfect World.” Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing (Nov 2006 – originally posted here as “Back from Camp”)
“The Bridge.” Good Gosh Almighty! (Mar 2003)
Photographs
“Rolling Bottle.” ouroboros review (Jun 2010 – No. 5)
“Train in Round Rock.” ouroboros review (Jul 2009 – No. 3)
Videos
(see also my YouTube and Vimeo channels)
“While Sitting in Church.” qarrtsiluni (Oct 2011 – Worship issue)
“The Ramble.” Moving Poems (Nov 2010)
“drylung.” qarrtsiluni & Moving Poems (Aug 2010)
“God Bless Johnny Cash.” Moving Poems (Jul 2010)