List of PUBLISHED POETRY

Dragon Lady: Chimera POEMS, Spartan Press 2026

• Kickin’ It Maple (2022)

• Bird Woman

• Portraits (2019)

• Wednesday When the Milk Comes

• Blue Heron

• The Sweet Ones

• Peach Pit Grandma

• Grandpa’s Lair

• Cold Matches 2020

• The Joy of Kid-Sized Strawberry

• Toothpaste

• Dollar store prayer

• Trojan I Could Never Be 2019

• Hungry Moon

• Grandma’s attic

• You Try Not to Think About

• The Dead (2021)

• Waiting for My Mother to Come Back

• from the Sunshine Bank

• Miss Honeychurch (2022)

• Escape Artist 2013

• Fickle Moon (2015)

• Tombstone (2020)

• “It’s a terrible, terrible world” (2022)

• How to Wake up From Nightmares (2025)

• No Trees Winter Dream (2025)

• allergic to the in-between times

• Holly’s Grandpa 1989

• There’s nothing like a darkroom 1995

• Schizophrenia is a Cauliflower (2022)

• The Prose Basket & the Sad Car

• Laundromat Patchuli (October 2025)

• Halloween Ghosts in the Summer

• things caught in my hair

• Sometimes Small Stupid Things

• (October 21, 2025)

• Friends Stand Me Back Up 2023

• ADD & the Warmth of Therapy Dogs

• Watchtower (November 2025)

• Our Love is a Forest

• You Say the Leaves are Beautiful

• I knew we’d end up together

• Like Doves

• Christmas Light or

• The bees have come back / 113

• Every Bird at Once

• Fuck-it List

• What I want you to remember

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SECRET LOVE FOR HEARTS Flying Ketchup Press, 2025

• Heart Guest 

• Poet’s Heart: Justice is Running 

• The Heart Less Taken 

• Broken Heart i

• Cat Got My Heart 2002 

• Heart Fridge Magnet 

• Lemon Heart 2000 

• I Heart Pink & All That Jazz 

• I have a Careful Heart 

• Emily’s Heart 1978 

• Heart Melt 

• Heart Spring 2010 

• Valentine’s Day 1982 

• Little Firework

• Stiffener for Hearts 2000 

• Heart Shaped Scar 2013 

• Trying to Keep My Heart Alive 

• Heart in a Can 2023 

• A Very Real and Human Heart 

• Plain Heart 2022

• Sweet ‘N Sour Heart

• Poet Takes All the Hearts 2022

• Purple Heart Notes 1997

• Double Heart 2022 

• Listen Here, Heart 

• Dead Heads 

• Valentine Color-Plate 2003 

• Bitter Coffee Heart 2014 

• Morning Glory Heart 2014 

• Snow Heart 

• Heartwings-not a sonnet 

• Please Be My Valentine 2009 

• Love Poem 2010 

• Pure in Heart 2010 

• Roll the Dice, Love 2019 

• Far Away Love 2020 

• Frostheart 2014 

• Inscribed Heart 2020 

• Shut-Down Heart 2021 

• Unknown Heart 2022 

• Sleepless Heart 57

• Heart Sword 2023 

• Hidden Heart 2023 

• You are the Green 

• Heart Language of the Birds 2021

• Love is a Pebble 2022 

• Mother’s Heart (Skyscraper 2021) 

• Robot’s Heart of America 

• Ground Hog’s Parade 2022 

• Mother Heart Fractal 

• Heart Fractal II 

• There’s Space in My Heart 2015 

• Valentine’s Day 1983

• Lucky Heart 2010 

• Deer Heart “Horns” 2013 

• “Secret love for hearts” 2011 

• Valentine’s Day 1985 

• Valentine’s Day 1988 

• Leavenworth Valentine

• Thirteenth Valentine 1993 

• Heartsmyth Valentine’s 1994 

• High School Brave Heart 1995 

• Deckled Paper Valentine 2023

• Love Birds They Say 2024 

• When the Milk Comes 2025 

• “You Are Marvelous” 

• Valentine’s 2025

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IN OUR OWN WORDS: EMBODIED POETRY ANTHOLOGY, Salt & Fig Books 2024

• Our Battle Dress

• Morning Sickness V: Making spaghetti

• Morning Sickness II: Cream Filling

• To my Daughter

• Bridge Dance

•  Annulment Falchion

• Feeding her poems

• They say don't put your heart in a poem

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SPROUTS: MEDITATIONS Light Shine Books, 2023

• Waitingtree

• Like Weeds

• Unedited Prayer Garden

• Stump

 

PATH OF BIRDS: Poets on the Rise Salt & Fig Books 2023

• Birds

• How Many Times a Robin?

• Uccellino–Little Bird

• Emily Dickinson is Addicted to Facebook

• Swift

• Bird Talk

• Egg Moon

• Easter Egg

 

NIGHT FOREST: Folk Poetry & Story Salt & Fig Books 2022

• Gerda & the Snow Queen

• Puss ‘N Boots

• Night Garden Cantos iii ~it’s night

• Come to the Night Garden

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NIGHT BLOOMING: Poems to Speak at Twilight, Flying Ketchup Press 2022

• Strawberry Sky

• Come to the Night Garden

• Like Sharks

• Why are poets always talking

• about flowers?

• Left or Right Side of the Peonies

• Bee

• How to Be Alone, Honeysuckle

• Five Red Tears, or I am Not a Gardner

• Poet-Trees

• Emily Dickinson is addicted to Facebook

• Turn, Turn Blackened Catfish

• Justice is Running

• Field Stones

• unedited prayer garden

• What you see here

• You try not to think about the dead

• The Aldica–

• Jerusalem Café is gone

• Easter Again 2021

• Stones

• Sometimes You Finally get a Moment

• Fattening Moon

• Skyscrapers

• Night Blooming Flower

• The Green Lady

• Like Lightning

• Moon White Dress

• “it’s a terrible, terrible world.”

• night garden cantos

• Gems

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THORNY LOCUST v. 29, spring 2023

• Justice is Running

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KANSAS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY 2023, Public Poetry on the Street Car

• Hubcap Kansas City

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MO ARTS COMMISSION, Poet Laureate Haiku Project

• Parking Lot Birds

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MASTICADORES USA Spring 2023

• St. Valentine's Day

• Comets

• Bird Talk

• Unknowing

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356 DAYS: A POETRY ANTHOLOGY,  VOL 3, 4

KANSAS CITY 2020, 2022, 2024, 2026

• Halloween Ghosts in the Summer

• The joy of the kids-sized strawberry toothpaste

• There's nothing like a darkroom 1995

• Everyone likes the sound of their poetry the best

• Laundromat Patchouli Oct 2025

• grave goods

• Let Go/ Make Room

• Everyone has a very real and human heart

• What You See Here

• Librarians

• Poets in Love

• Bridge Dance

• Come back

• Joseph’s Dream Coat”

 

WRITERS PLACE YEARBOOK 2021, 2024

• Boötes

• Valentine's Day in Leavenworth

• A Tree Grows in Leavenworth

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BLUE CITY: POETS

Flying Ketchup Press 2019

• July blue

• Honey Suckle City

• Steam and Vapors

• Prairie Winter 

 

THE VERY EDGE: POEMS IN ENGLISH SPANISH & FRENCH

Flying Ketchup Press 2020

• Metro Stop Communion

• The Path of Birds

• Rainbow Mandala

• Pensée Little Violet

• Excelsior

 

arc-24: People, Places, Prayers, Peace

IAWE TEL AVIV 2015

• Jacob’s Song

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NAUGATUCK RIVER REVIEW

Westfield, Mass. Summer 2015

• Waiting for the Windwisps

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BETHLEHEM WRITERS ROUNDTABLE

Pennsylvania, 2015

• When We Had Little

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PUSS ‘N BOÖTES: DARK POEMS

Flying Ketchup Press 2020

• Lately poems are knocking on my door

• Tree Dream

• Winter Whales

• Librarians

• Shoots

• How to Make a Poem Dive

• Fire Keepers

• Eve

• Gas Light

• Easter Egg

• Wolf

• Night Blooming Flower 2006

• Spade

• White Cat

• Battle Dress

• Gerda & The Mirror

• Castillo

• How Many Times a Robin

• Vine

• Puss 'N Boots

• Downward Barking Dog

• Bridge Dance

• Corona Borealis

• Daisies

• unedited prayer garden

• Swift

• What if

• Sequins

• WWDD  

• (Boötes)

• July Blue 1986

• Echo

• Grace

• Valentine’s Day 2020

• Lemon Moon

• Bodhicitta

• Easter 2019

• Macaroni

• Gathering Lines

• Wild Rose

• Visited by an Angel

• Embrace

• Easter 2020 Stay at Home

• Cat Princess: Cruce del Rio

• The Great

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TEA WITH ALICE: HEIRLOOM POEMS

Flying Ketchup Press 2019​

• Gazing at the Windwisps

• At My Grandfather’s Funeral

• Pigeon Holes

• For a Place

• Fence Post

• Bath Lady

• Attic

• Last Farm: Food Revolution

• Cast Iron Pearls

• Grandma Inside the Wolf

• Mittens We Have Lost

• River

• Bust lines

• Decadillion Stars

• Sugar Cookies

• Easter Basket 2012

• Spaghetti

• Tea with Alice

• Fleece 2014

• Two Kinds of Blue 2015

• Pieced Dream

• Ballet

• To my Children

• Happy Meal

• Easter 2017

• Church on Sunday

• unedited prayer garden

• Easter Basket 2018

• Excelsior

• Tulip

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KINLIGHT: HOMEGROWN POEMS

Flying Ketchup Press 2017/2019

 

• Jacob’s Song

• Ash Wednesday Bird

• Waiting Tree

• Icarus

• Easter Basket 2001

• When We Had Little

• Redland PA

• Easter Again  2004

• FireKeepers  

• To My Daughter

• Seed of Fire

• Dream Landscape

• Sails

• Ten Ten

• Shards

• Daughter’s Dream

• Rosemary for Remembrance

• Pilgrimage to the Grotto

• Paper House

• Over the Arch

• Egg Moon

• Stuff

• Done

• Steam and Vapors

• Ghosts in the Chick Peas

• Frost

• Tattoo

• Onions

• Valentine

• Purple Cabbage

• Easter Time 2015

• Cadbury Crimes

• Black Walnut

• Easter Sweetness 2016

• Like Weeds

• Jasper Sky

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ELEMENTS

HAYWARD, CA VOL 1 & 2 2004-2005

• Mourning Pink Salmon

 

LINDEN AVENUE

DIXON, ATHENA VOL 2. 2012

• For a Place: River

 

JOHNSON COUNTY LIBRARY REVIEW

NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2010

• Mittens We Have Lost

 

POETRY.COM

WEB, PRINT, & MUSICAL/ VOCAL CD 2001

• Servants Songs

 

MINEMINGO REVIEW

Grantham, Pennsylvania Ed: Vol. 10 # 2. 1999, VOL. 10 #2 1999

• At my Grandfather’s Funeral For a place 

• Servants’ Songs in Isaiah 40-55