Writing
Published and Forthcoming Poetry
Forthcoming in Paterson Literary Review
- Our Dead Refugee Dads
Forthcoming in Brushfire
- Spider Thoughts
Forthcoming in The Poetry Lighthouse
- First Trip to the Zoo
- Variation on a Theme By Dylan Thomas
- Mother of All Worries
The Marbled Sigh
- The Silent Female Killer
- The Marlborough Man
- Making Sushi, April 2026
- It's Not Just a Game, March 2026
- Spring, Rescue Us From the Icy Beast of Winter, January 2026
- Lemonade Kisses, January 2026
- Crime of the Two-Eyed, January 2026
- Super Mario Brothers at 50, January 2026
- Dream Fishers, October 2025
- Eating Our Ancient Trauma, December 2025
- Misplaced Affection
- Heavenly Bodies, August 2025
- The Opening, October 2025
- Biking with My Boys, September 2025
- Origami Paper, June 2025
- Spirograph, April 2025
- Eclipse, April 2025
- 2002 Wedding Card From My Mom, April 2025
- Spirograph, April 2025
- The Woman in the Mirror, April 2025
- Women's College Reunion, January 2025
- Pears in the Snack Bowl, January 2025 Honorable Mention in the 2024 Kelseyville Pear Festival Poetry Contest
- Honeybee, September 2024
- Their Music, September 2024
- Sewing Memories, September 2024
- His Reflection, July 2024
- Blackberry, July 2024
- Lucid Dreaming, June 2024
- Her Hidden Talent, July 2024
- Let’s Pluck the Moon From the Sky Tonight, May 2024
- Silver Eye, May 2024
- The Moon is Pregnant With Dreams, May 2024
- They've Come, April 2024 Finalist for the Beal's Prize for Poetry
- The Tooth, April 2024
- I Wish I Could Stretch Out the Night, April 2024
- Metal on Bone, March 2024
- Paper Weight, March, 2024
- House Plant, November 2023
- Camping, July 2023
- The Depression, May 2023
- Low Tide, April 2023
- Musical Cook, April 2023
- My Hollow, April 2023
- Palimpsest, April 2023
- Lost Luggage, March 2023
- First Words, March 2023
- Existential Musings, March 2023
- Swimming in the Sun, January 2023
- Your Dying Room, January 2023
- The Beetle in the Sink, January 2023
- When I am Dead, January 2023
- Video Tapes, January 2023
- Dream Lover, January 2023
- Falling to New Heights, January 2023
- The Big Lice, January 2023
- Ode to My Breasts, January 2023
- My Father’s Yahrzeit, January 2023
- His Waiting Hand, September 2022
- This Body of Mine, September 2022 Finalist for the Derick Burleson Poetry Prize with Choeofpleirn Press
- First Letter Home From Camp, September 2022
- Beach Days, September 2022
- Homeless Village, September 2022
- Happy Birthday, August 2022
- My Son's Whistling, June 2022
- That Photo, June 2022 Finalist for the Derick Burleson Poetry Prize with Choeofpleirn Press
- Made Whole By Others, April 2022
- The Dinosaur Will Get a Makeover, April 2022
- The Beetle in the Sink, April 2022
- Your Broken Heart, April 2022
- On Love and Dreams, April 2022
- The Three Words, April 2022
- My Granddaughter Sits on My Lap, February 2022
- Digging with Pails, February 2022
- To My Father Who Immigrated to America, December 2021
- Makinde's Quantum World, November 2021
- Her Volvano, November 2021
- The Dragon in the Sky, November 2021
- Natural Highlights, November 2021
- Rabbit in a Small City Front Yard, November 2021
- Our Pine, October 2021
- Stones for His Grave, September 2021 Finalist for the Derick Burleson Poetry Prize with Choeofpleirn Press
- Makinde's Quantum World, August 2021
Listen to a GBH segment with Makinde Ogunnaike and Josh Sariñana that features the poem here. - Her Volcano, August 2021
- Missing My Twin Baby Boys, June 2021
- My Love, April 2021
- The Never-Was-But-Could-Have-Been, April 2021
- Invisible Lines, April 2021
- She Bikes for the First Time, April 2021
- The Stranger, April 2021
- Makeout Stories, September, 2024
- Acceptance, February 2024
- The Woman in the Mirror, April 2022
- Leaving You, October 2023