Poetry

Individual Poems

The Melancholy of Mecha-Girl
Mythic Delirium 26

A Silver Splendour, A Flame
Goblin Fruit (March 2011-December 2011)

The Secret of Being a Cowboy
Stone Telling (March 2011)

Featured Poet – Flytrap, May 2008:
Lessons cycle:
Lessons In Thermodynamics
Lessons In Architecture
Lessons In Petrology
Lessons In Horticulture

Goblin Fruit Spring 2008 issue Featured Poet. Includes the poems:
The Jeweler’s Wife
The Girl With Two Skins
Landscape With Girl And Clams
The Ballad of All the Things I Might Have Written

Showcase 2008
Sedna, Submerged
Skadi in the Forest of Legs

Farrago’s Wainscot:
The Immigrant
Rampion
The Seven Devils of Central California
(Rhysling Award Winner)

Featured Poet for GrendelSong #2:
Blood Poem series:
Inhumed, Her Star-Staked Body Bloodless Lies
Glass, Blood, and Ash
An Intersection of Blood and Gold
How Comes This Blood Upon the Key?
An Issue of Blood

Xelas Magazine
In the Arms of the Purple-Swathed Muses (translation of Sappho fragment)
Notes from a Previous Tenant

 

Electric Velocipede
(Nov 2006):
The Inkmaker’s Wife
Anatomy of a Yes

Goblin Fruit:
Past the Rivers
Flax
Errata

Star*Line:
The Cook’s Wife

The Journal of Mythic Arts:
The Child Bride of the Lost City of Ubar (Nominated for the Rhysling Award)

Heliotrope Magazine:
Pasiphae’s Machine

Jabberwocky II:
Suttee

Mythic Delirium Issue #14:
The Descent of the Corn Queen of the Midwest (Featured Poem–nominated for the Rhysling Award and the Pushcart Prize)
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The Queen of Hearts

Lone Star Stories:
Helen in the Underworld
The Frog-Wife

Mythic #1: The Eight Legs of Grandmother Spider (Nominated for the Rhysling Award and the Pushcart Prize)

The Pedestal Magazine:

November Is a Silent Month

Cabinet des Fées (May 2006):
The Gardener and the Gravekeeper

Mythic Delirium Issue #13:
The Queen of Hearts