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Published Poetry

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List of PUBLISHED POETRY

 

IN OUR OWN WORDS: EMBODIED POETRY ANTHOLOGY

  • 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 StreetCar

  • 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. Valentines Day

  • Comets

  • Bird Talk

  • Unknowing

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356 DAYS: A POETRY ANTHOLOGY,  VOL 3, 4

KANSAS CITY 2020, 2022, 2024

 

WRITERS PLACE YEARBOOK 2021, 2024

  • Boötes

  • Valentine's Day in Leavenworth

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BLUE CITY: POETS

Flying Ketchup Press 2019

 

THE VERY EDGE: POEMS IN ENGLISH SPANISH & FRENCH

Flying Ketchup Press 2020

 

arc-24: People, Places, Prayers, Peace

IAWE TEL AVIV 2015

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NAUGATUCK RIVER REVIEW

Westfield, Mass. Summer 2015

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BETHLEHEM WRITERS ROUNDTABLE

Pennsylvania, 2015

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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

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