Poetry & Prose

“For Jeanne Bird,” Cooweescoowee Journal of Arts and Letters, 2011.
“In Spring,” “Summer Rain,” “Autumn Haiku,” “Winter Starlings,”“Iceberg Lake, Glacier National Park, 2009,” Cantos: A Literary and Arts Journal, 2014.
“A Shared Language: Ungendering the Language and Re-Visioning the Myths,” Proceedings of the 2015 Visions Research Conference. Received Best in Section / Meritorious Essays.
“Dream,” Lady Blue Literary Arts Journal, 2017.
“Home Going,” ROMP Winter Poetry Challenge, Outstanding Poem, 2020.
“She Visits,” “Brother & Fish,” “Landline,” The Talon Literary Journal, 2020.
“Stacked Stones,” Writing from the Center Zine, 2025.

excerpt from

"Stacked Stones"

This lyric essay was published in full in the

Writing from the Center: Literary Zine, vol. 3, 2025

I looked down.

I panicked.

I knew that I could not do this, and the voice of the guide warning us not to take this tour if we were deathly afraid of heights came back to taunt me. I kept telling myself that I either climbed out or I died there on the side of a cliff, and, if I died, then I would surely fall. I made it to the top, exhausted, unable to breathe, and completely elated. Robert Frost once said, “Freedom lies in being bold” and he was right; I had been bold, and because I had been bold, I had tasted freedom.

I took nothing

but left myself

my heart with So'oh

singing among stacked stones,

my joy planted like corn

upon the mesa tops.

To read the full lyric essay purchase a copy of Writing from the Center, vol. 3, 2025

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