Category: Poetry

  • purple

    purple

    Published in the 2019 edition of Loyola University Maryland’s literary magazine, Corridors darling, you would never believe / who I ran into on the way to / make friends with busboys and poets! / it was  our portland purple palace / parked on the wrong side of syrup-fish street / on the opposite side of the…

  • Marked

    Marked

    Published in the 2019 edition of Loyola University Maryland’s literary magazine, Corridors Marked “Every time you meet someone  it’s hard not to wonder  who they’ve been—one story breaking so much into the next:” -“Unmarked,” Tim Siebles   Suppose Tim and Natalie found out  that we had done it too— had the ducks prelude the hoodied reintroductions…

  • Ode to Baltimore (2018)

    Ode to Baltimore (2018)

    for Angela, 1997-2018 Baltimore,   Do not ever think that you did not save her, ceased the fire in her lungs and all the way down to her toes.   Every bench here marks her progress, from the one on Charles and every one she passed on the stroll home from summer mass.   She…

  • Midnight

    Midnight

    Published in Z Publishing House’s Maryland’s Best Emerging Poets 2018 anthology Midnight I hope you remember me in the midnights of yourself, in the ten half-moons that cupped my face and confessed your love for me on the last Sunday in April.   How unpleasant it has been, to only be seen by you when…

  • Other Words

    Other Words

    Published in the 2018 edition of Loyola University Maryland’s literary magazine, Corridors The love letter that came in the mail today came from myself, but it was not I who wrote it. It was your hand, dear, that so thoughtfully composed the string of darling confessions, pen drifting then lifting in feverish tempos of love…

  • A Self Libation

    A Self Libation

    Sit here. Eat. Feast on your life.