Poems

by Andy Oram

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Series

• Published poems

• City series

• Embodied series

• Language and expression series

  • Poetry series

    • Fellow poets series

  • Music series

  • Art series

  • Ring cycle series

• Spirituality and religion series

• Jewish series

• Christian series

• Evocative places series

• Social protest series

• Mortality series

  • COVID-19 pandemic series

• Science series

• Recollections series

• Mental state series

• Light series

• Relationships series

  • Fellow poets series

• Reflections on history series

• Poems inspired by place

  • Middle East series

• Everyday scenes

• Wry humor

• Miscellaneous poems

• Summation

Poems

• Published poems

  • Urban portrait (published in the Spring 2020 issue of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal, page 408)

  • The voice (published in issue 16 of SLAB Literary Magazine)

  • Rose window (published in the Spring 2020 issue of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal, page 413)

  • The daylight lingers in the summer till repose (published in the Spring 2020 issue of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal, page 412)

  • Four virtues (published in the Fall/Winter 2021 issue of Soul-Lit)

  • Dolores Heights sky (published in the Spring 2020 issue of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal, page 410)

  • In the margins of a journal taken from the bottom of a trunk (published in issue #2 of Ranger magazine)

  • Madrigals of war and love (published in The Decadent Review)

  • Palindrome (published in The RavensPerch on September 11, 2023)

  • The boys together (published in issue #2 of Ranger magazine)

  • The ocean speaks (published in issue 5 of RABBLE REVIEW, January 2023)

  • Polkas (published in The Closed Eye Open as the last entry in Maya’s Micros of May 12, 2021)

  • In an archive (published in issue X of the Heron Clan anthology)

  • Time, here, who, mutation (published in the Spring 2022 issue of J Journal)

  • The heavy land (published in the Spring 2022 issue of J Journal)

  • The ID is not the ego (published in issue #2 of Ranger magazine)

  • Aubade (The silent oboe) (published in issue VII of the Heron Clan anthology)

  • Anticipación (published in Issue 115 of the Arlington Literary Journal, 2019)

  • Screen memories (published in the Fall 2021 issue of Superpresent)

  • Tense (published in Issue 3 of Too Well Away Literary Journal)

  • Stopping point (published in the 2022 issue of Cæsura)

  • Safe word (published in the 2023 issue of The Waiting Room from Nervous Ghost Press)

  • Knots (published in the 2020 Wising Up Press anthology Goodness)

  • The first church

  • After reading Dark Night of the Soul (published in issue #2 of Ranger magazine)

  • Neocon fable, mythologized with tabloids (published in Issue 8 of Main Squeeze, March 20, 2023)

  • Mighty past (published in the anthology The Experiment Will Not Be Bound)

  • Nooks (published in issue #2 of Ranger magazine)

  • Interlopers (published in Issue 9 ofBook of Matches)

  • Economics (published in the Fall 2021 issue of WhimsicalPoet: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry)

  • At the rehearsal (published in the Fall 2021 issue of WhimsicalPoet: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry)

  • Punch out (published in the anthology The Experiment Will Not Be Bound, 2022)

  • Our life’s carnival (published in issue 10, Spring 2019, of Ají Magazine; see page 106 of the PDF)

  • Junctions (published in Issue 115 of the Arlington Literary Journal, 2019)

  • Tarshish (published in issue VII of the Heron Clan anthology)

  • Candor (published in Issue 84 of Offcourse, March 21, 2021)

  • Rosh Ḥodesh Elul

  • Changes around here (published in the inaugural issue of WhimsicalPoet, February 2021)

  • Neural net (published in Cloud Native Data Center Networking, by Dinesh G. Dutt, published by O’Reilly Media, Inc., November 2019)

  • A course of serotonin (published in issue 2 of Waymark Literary Magazine)

  • House at the shore (published in Volume 24 of Steam Ticket)

  • Whether it pertains to (published in the second issue of Angel Rust)

  • Warehouses (published in the 14th edition of DASH Literary Journal in May 2021)

  • The piano improvisation (Published in Planisphere Quarterly)

  • Cradling (published in the October 2022 issue of The Bluebird Word)

  • Incandescent

  • Half life (published in the Summer 2022 issue of Vita Poetica, along with my audio recording)

  • Lawns (published in issue 5 of Poetry Leaves, 2020)

  • Series convergence (published in issue 1 of Words & Whispers, September 1, 2020)

  • A product of reproduction number and serial time (published as part of a series in a special issue, The Great Pause, of Press Pause Press)

  • A people silhouetted, deprivation glimpse (published as part of a series in a special issue, The Great Pause, of Press Pause Press)

  • Enclosure (published as part of a series in a special issue, The Great Pause, of Press Pause Press)

  • Straggler (published in the April 2020 Spring Gallery of Kosmos Journal.

  • Depot in a valley (published in issue 14 of Wild Roof Journal)

  • Why we stopped in Petra (published in Issue 13 of Panoply, August 2019)

  • Roster (published in issue VIII of the Heron Clan anthology)

  • A day like the others (published in the 2022 issue of Cæsura)

  • Like a wind (published in Issue 19 ofWild Roof Journal on March 2023)

  • The final chord (published in issue 22 of Waterwheel Review, December 2020)

  • 5:34 (published in miller’s pond)

  • Stuffed (published in an Essential anthology)

  • Reminder (published in NOMADartx Review)

  • No longer (published in issue VIII of the Heron Clan anthology)

  • The path of darkness (published in issue 3 (Spring 2020) of The Dark Sire)

  • Waiting out the rain (published in Issue 77 of Offcourse, June 20, 2019)

  • Remembering the evening in the yard (published in Issue 77 of Offcourse, June 20, 2019)

  • We don’t ask when that house will sell (published in issue VIII of the Heron Clan anthology)

  • Just remarking (published in Issue 77 of Offcourse, June 20, 2019)

  • Mute (published on June 10, 2020 by The Voices Project)

  • Entry (published in Outliers, Conclave Literary Journal Book 5, 2020)

  • Future indications (published in Volume 27, Number 4 (Fall 2022) of Main Street Rag)

  • Picking up stones (published in DASH Literary Journal, Volume 12, Spring 2019)

  • In our house

  • Buried (published in Issue 8 of Genre: Urban Arts, Summer 2019)

  • Dispersal (published in Issue 8 of Genre: Urban Arts, Summer 2019)

  • The bounce alone (published by The Voices Project on April 2, 2020)

  • They asked me my religion (published as one of four poems in the Spring 2020 issue of Soul-Lit)

  • The musician (published by The RavensPerchon October 31, 2022)

  • The flute (published as one of four poems in the Spring 2020 issue of Soul-Lit)

  • By water (published as one of four poems in the Spring 2020 issue of Soul-Lit)

  • Every spirit praise (no drum or choir)

  • Uncentered (published as one of four poems in the Spring 2020 issue of Soul-Lit)

  • Garden of thought (published in the Red Letter Poem series; scroll down to No. 9)

  • New stage (published in Nine Cloud Journal, Issue 1, August 2020)

  • The day is short (published in the September 2020 issue of of Orbis)

  • Backbone (published in the Spring 2020 issue of Speckled Trout Review)

  • Do not repeat your self (published in the Spring 2020 issue of WestWard Quarterly)

  • Unfashionable words (published in issue #2 of Ranger magazine)

  • In the shadow of abundance (published in the Winter 2020 issue of The Courtship of Winds)

  • Frequently Asked Questions (published on page 39 in the Spring 2021 issue of Superpresent)

  • Because there is light (published in the 2020 Wising Up Press anthology Goodness)

  • Prow (published in Volume 27, Number 4 (Fall 2022) of Main Street Rag)

  • They built (published in Issue 10 of the Tiger Moth Review, July 15, 2023)

• City series

  • Urban portrait (published in the Spring 2020 issue of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal, page 408)

  • The daylight lingers in the summer till repose (published in the Spring 2020 issue of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal, page 412)

  • Street cred

  • Dolores Heights sky (published in the Spring 2020 issue of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal, page 410)

  • Cityspans

  • Warehouses (published in the 14th edition of DASH Literary Journal in May 2021)

  • We don’t ask when that house will sell (published in issue VIII of the Heron Clan anthology)

  • Of old

  • A day like the others (published in the 2022 issue of Cæsura)

  • Carmel shuk

  • Changes around here (published in the inaugural issue of WhimsicalPoet, February 2021)

  • Unfashionable words (published in issue #2 of Ranger magazine)

  • Winter halo

  • Lawns (published in issue 5 of Poetry Leaves, 2020)

  • Mighty past (published in the anthology The Experiment Will Not Be Bound)

  • The wait at twilight

  • Application for poet laureate

  • Like a wind (published in Issue 19 ofWild Roof Journal on March 2023)

• Embodied series

  • At the rehearsal (published in the Fall 2021 issue of WhimsicalPoet: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry)

  • Odalisque

  • Cradling (published in the October 2022 issue of The Bluebird Word)

  • Backbone (published in the Spring 2020 issue of Speckled Trout Review)

  • Palindrome (published in The RavensPerch on September 11, 2023)

  • The bounce alone (published by The Voices Project on April 2, 2020)

  • Like a wind (published in Issue 19 ofWild Roof Journal on March 2023)

  • Cyan

• Language and expression series

  • Rose window (published in the Spring 2020 issue of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal, page 413)

  • Just remarking (published in Issue 77 of Offcourse, June 20, 2019)

  • In an archive (published in issue X of the Heron Clan anthology)

  • Legacies

  • Do not repeat your self (published in the Spring 2020 issue of WestWard Quarterly)

  • Memo to prodigies

  • Mimesis

  • Tense (published in Issue 3 of Too Well Away Literary Journal)

  • Poetry series

    • Candor (published in Issue 84 of Offcourse, March 21, 2021)

    • Economics (published in the Fall 2021 issue of WhimsicalPoet: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry)

    • Metaverse

    • Why write free verse?

    • Written in the key of C

    • To the editor who instructed me to cut my last stanza

    • Madrigals of war and love (published in The Decadent Review)

    • Application for poet laureate

    • Poem displayed in landscape mode

    • Juxtaposed

    • Farewell to my Hebrew class

    • Fellow poets series

      • Chiffonier treasures

      • Winter renovation

      • The banquet

      • Inhaling the world

      • Revisioning

      • What better

      • Does every gift

      • What did you leave the apartment for?

      • Sacral

      • A fulcrum of thought

      • Gifted travels

      • Sabled chimes

  • Music series

    • The piano improvisation (Published in Planisphere Quarterly)

    • The final chord (published in issue 22 of Waterwheel Review, December 2020)

    • At the rehearsal (published in the Fall 2021 issue of WhimsicalPoet: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry)

    • Madrigals of war and love (published in The Decadent Review)

    • Patterns and riffs

    • Written in the key of C

    • The musician (published by The RavensPerchon October 31, 2022)

    • The flute (published as one of four poems in the Spring 2020 issue of Soul-Lit)

  • Art series

    • Candor (published in Issue 84 of Offcourse, March 21, 2021)

    • Patterns and riffs

    • Odalisque

    • Abiding

  • Ring cycle series

    • Wotan’s myopia

    • Sieglinde steadfast

    • Mime’s prowess

    • Gutrune’s kindness

• Spirituality and religion series

  • Dolores Heights sky (published in the Spring 2020 issue of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal, page 410)

  • Roster (published in issue VIII of the Heron Clan anthology)

  • Uncentered (published as one of four poems in the Spring 2020 issue of Soul-Lit)

  • They asked me my religion (published as one of four poems in the Spring 2020 issue of Soul-Lit)

  • Registry of deeds

  • Sky and earth

  • Evocative places series

    • Garden of thought (published in the Red Letter Poem series; scroll down to No. 9)

    • Of old

    • The quiet hours

    • In an archive (published in issue X of the Heron Clan anthology)

    • Rose window (published in the Spring 2020 issue of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal, page 413)

    • The final chord (published in issue 22 of Waterwheel Review, December 2020)

    • 5:34 (published in miller’s pond)

    • Depot in a valley (published in issue 14 of Wild Roof Journal)

    • Prow (published in Volume 27, Number 4 (Fall 2022) of Main Street Rag)

    • Cyan

  • Jewish series

    • Casting lots

    • Discordant conclusions

    • The voice (published in issue 16 of SLAB Literary Magazine)

    • Residing

    • The day is short (published in the September 2020 issue of of Orbis)

    • Rededication

    • By water (published as one of four poems in the Spring 2020 issue of Soul-Lit)

    • Blaze

    • Friday afternoon piyut

    • The bright house

    • Rosh Ḥodesh Elul

    • The flute (published as one of four poems in the Spring 2020 issue of Soul-Lit)

    • Because there is light (published in the 2020 Wising Up Press anthology Goodness)

    • The end

    • On Ḥanukah

    • Farewell to my Hebrew class

  • Christian series

    • Rose window (published in the Spring 2020 issue of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal, page 413)

    • Lost passages from an epistle

    • The first church

    • Augmented reality

    • After reading A Mirror for Simple Souls

    • After reading Dark Night of the Soul (published in issue #2 of Ranger magazine)

    • Every spirit praise (no drum or choir)

• Social protest series

  • The voice (published in issue 16 of SLAB Literary Magazine)

  • Picking up stones (published in DASH Literary Journal, Volume 12, Spring 2019)

  • Junctions (published in Issue 115 of the Arlington Literary Journal, 2019)

  • Anticipación (published in Issue 115 of the Arlington Literary Journal, 2019)

  • Dispersal (published in Issue 8 of Genre: Urban Arts, Summer 2019)

  • Remembering the evening in the yard (published in Issue 77 of Offcourse, June 20, 2019)

  • Cityspans

  • Abiding

  • Roster (published in issue VIII of the Heron Clan anthology)

  • Series convergence (published in issue 1 of Words & Whispers, September 1, 2020)

  • Slow and slow and then fast

  • Where it all ends up

  • While falling

  • Safe word (published in the 2023 issue of The Waiting Room from Nervous Ghost Press)

  • Neocon fable, mythologized with tabloids (published in Issue 8 of Main Squeeze, March 20, 2023)

  • Punch out (published in the anthology The Experiment Will Not Be Bound, 2022)

  • Learning Plan

  • Entry (published in Outliers, Conclave Literary Journal Book 5, 2020)

  • The ocean speaks (published in issue 5 of RABBLE REVIEW, January 2023)

  • Time, here, who, mutation (published in the Spring 2022 issue of J Journal)

  • The heavy land (published in the Spring 2022 issue of J Journal)

  • Discordant conclusions

  • The ID is not the ego (published in issue #2 of Ranger magazine)

  • Martyrology

  • Madrigals of war and love (published in The Decadent Review)

  • Neural net (published in Cloud Native Data Center Networking, by Dinesh G. Dutt, published by O’Reilly Media, Inc., November 2019)

  • Successfully routed requests

  • The human condition

  • Future indications (published in Volume 27, Number 4 (Fall 2022) of Main Street Rag)

  • Every spirit praise (no drum or choir)

  • Mighty past (published in the anthology The Experiment Will Not Be Bound)

  • Whether it pertains to (published in the second issue of Angel Rust)

  • Spirit of rage

  • New stage (published in Nine Cloud Journal, Issue 1, August 2020)

  • Forgotten

  • Only to continue

  • How we continue

  • Passion on the side

  • Encomium to low wage earners

  • Valleys

  • Odalisque

  • Visting Rabin Square, February 2017

  • Rededication

  • Blaze

  • Five-Year Plan

  • They built (published in Issue 10 of the Tiger Moth Review, July 15, 2023)

• Mortality series

  • Knots (published in the 2020 Wising Up Press anthology Goodness)

  • Visting Rabin Square, February 2017

  • The Count of Nevers

  • COVID-19 pandemic series

    • A product of reproduction number and serial time (published as part of a series in a special issue, The Great Pause, of Press Pause Press)

    • The bounce alone (published by The Voices Project on April 2, 2020)

    • Series convergence (published in issue 1 of Words & Whispers, September 1, 2020)

    • Mute (published on June 10, 2020 by The Voices Project)

    • Frozen bread

    • Enclosure (published as part of a series in a special issue, The Great Pause, of Press Pause Press)

    • Where it all ends up

    • Frequently Asked Questions (published on page 39 in the Spring 2021 issue of Superpresent)

    • Forgotten

    • A people silhouetted, deprivation glimpse (published as part of a series in a special issue, The Great Pause, of Press Pause Press)

    • Nightmare

    • Stuffed (published in an Essential anthology)

    • No longer (published in issue VIII of the Heron Clan anthology)

  • Stopping point (published in the 2022 issue of Cæsura)

  • Composting

  • Why we stopped in Petra (published in Issue 13 of Panoply, August 2019)

  • Half life (published in the Summer 2022 issue of Vita Poetica, along with my audio recording)

  • Madrigals of war and love (published in The Decadent Review)

  • In the shadow of abundance (published in the Winter 2020 issue of The Courtship of Winds)

  • We don’t ask when that house will sell (published in issue VIII of the Heron Clan anthology)

  • Mighty past (published in the anthology The Experiment Will Not Be Bound)

  • Final century

  • Candor (published in Issue 84 of Offcourse, March 21, 2021)

  • Memo to prodigies

  • The voice (published in issue 16 of SLAB Literary Magazine)

  • The day is short (published in the September 2020 issue of of Orbis)

  • Blaze

  • The end

  • The ocean speaks (published in issue 5 of RABBLE REVIEW, January 2023)

  • Time, here, who, mutation (published in the Spring 2022 issue of J Journal)

  • Valleys

  • Registry of deeds

• Science series

  • Palindrome (published in The RavensPerch on September 11, 2023)

  • Abacus

  • Incandescent

  • A product of reproduction number and serial time (published as part of a series in a special issue, The Great Pause, of Press Pause Press)

  • Series convergence (published in issue 1 of Words & Whispers, September 1, 2020)

  • Executive function

  • A course of serotonin (published in issue 2 of Waymark Literary Magazine)

  • The ocean speaks (published in issue 5 of RABBLE REVIEW, January 2023)

  • The ID is not the ego (published in issue #2 of Ranger magazine)

  • Neural net (published in Cloud Native Data Center Networking, by Dinesh G. Dutt, published by O’Reilly Media, Inc., November 2019)

  • The end

  • Half life (published in the Summer 2022 issue of Vita Poetica, along with my audio recording)

  • Backbone (published in the Spring 2020 issue of Speckled Trout Review)

  • Juxtaposed

  • Uncentered (published as one of four poems in the Spring 2020 issue of Soul-Lit)

• Recollections series

  • Dolores Heights sky (published in the Spring 2020 issue of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal, page 410)

  • House at the shore (published in Volume 24 of Steam Ticket)

  • The boys together (published in issue #2 of Ranger magazine)

  • In the margins of a journal taken from the bottom of a trunk (published in issue #2 of Ranger magazine)

  • A day at Point Reyes long ago

  • The path of darkness (published in issue 3 (Spring 2020) of The Dark Sire)

  • Cradling (published in the October 2022 issue of The Bluebird Word)

  • In place of the book review section

• Mental state series

  • Waiting out the rain (published in Issue 77 of Offcourse, June 20, 2019)

  • Executive function

  • In a pool

  • A course of serotonin (published in issue 2 of Waymark Literary Magazine)

  • Safe word (published in the 2023 issue of The Waiting Room from Nervous Ghost Press)

  • Garden of thought (published in the Red Letter Poem series; scroll down to No. 9)

  • Augmented reality

  • After reading Dark Night of the Soul (published in issue #2 of Ranger magazine)

  • Screen memories (published in the Fall 2021 issue of Superpresent)

  • Tense (published in Issue 3 of Too Well Away Literary Journal)

  • Friday afternoon piyut

  • Reminder (published in NOMADartx Review)

  • The daylight lingers in the summer till repose (published in the Spring 2020 issue of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal, page 412)

  • The path of darkness (published in issue 3 (Spring 2020) of The Dark Sire)

  • Racing train

  • Punch out (published in the anthology The Experiment Will Not Be Bound, 2022)

  • On the edge of the end of the year’s light

  • Neural net (published in Cloud Native Data Center Networking, by Dinesh G. Dutt, published by O’Reilly Media, Inc., November 2019)

  • In place of the book review section

  • Cyan

• Light series

  • The daylight lingers in the summer till repose (published in the Spring 2020 issue of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal, page 412)

  • The day is short (published in the September 2020 issue of of Orbis)

  • Winter halo

  • Bright prospects

  • Rededication

  • The bounce alone (published by The Voices Project on April 2, 2020)

  • Augmented reality

  • Extra minutes

  • Blaze

  • The bright house

  • The wait at twilight

  • Underbrush

  • Sky and earth

  • Incandescent

  • Storm light

  • They built (published in Issue 10 of the Tiger Moth Review, July 15, 2023)

  • Because there is light (published in the 2020 Wising Up Press anthology Goodness)

  • Receiving the thunderstorm

  • The end

  • The path of darkness (published in issue 3 (Spring 2020) of The Dark Sire)

  • Lengthening light

  • On the edge of the end of the year’s light

  • Incoming light

  • Close call

  • Of old

  • Cyan

  • The quiet hours

• Relationships series

  • Our life’s carnival (published in issue 10, Spring 2019, of Ají Magazine; see page 106 of the PDF)

  • Knots (published in the 2020 Wising Up Press anthology Goodness)

  • Remembering the evening in the yard (published in Issue 77 of Offcourse, June 20, 2019)

  • The boys together (published in issue #2 of Ranger magazine)

  • Sincerity

  • Just remarking (published in Issue 77 of Offcourse, June 20, 2019)

  • House at the shore (published in Volume 24 of Steam Ticket)

  • Safe word (published in the 2023 issue of The Waiting Room from Nervous Ghost Press)

  • After being wordless

  • Introduction to the family

  • Stopping point (published in the 2022 issue of Cæsura)

  • Punch out (published in the anthology The Experiment Will Not Be Bound, 2022)

  • Emptying the dishwasher

  • Composting

  • Changes around here (published in the inaugural issue of WhimsicalPoet, February 2021)

  • Shared passage

  • Lawns (published in issue 5 of Poetry Leaves, 2020)

  • Another field

  • Mute (published on June 10, 2020 by The Voices Project)

  • Cradling (published in the October 2022 issue of The Bluebird Word)

  • The musician (published by The RavensPerchon October 31, 2022)

  • Tense (published in Issue 3 of Too Well Away Literary Journal)

  • Uncentered (published as one of four poems in the Spring 2020 issue of Soul-Lit)

  • Entry (published in Outliers, Conclave Literary Journal Book 5, 2020)

  • Extra minutes

  • The wait at twilight

  • The path of darkness (published in issue 3 (Spring 2020) of The Dark Sire)

  • Lengthening light

  • Farewell to my Hebrew class

  • Close call

  • Those dogs

• Reflections on history series

  • The heavy land (published in the Spring 2022 issue of J Journal)

  • Time, here, who, mutation (published in the Spring 2022 issue of J Journal)

  • Valleys

  • New stage (published in Nine Cloud Journal, Issue 1, August 2020)

  • Incandescent

  • Neocon fable, mythologized with tabloids (published in Issue 8 of Main Squeeze, March 20, 2023)

  • Junctions (published in Issue 115 of the Arlington Literary Journal, 2019)

  • Mighty past (published in the anthology The Experiment Will Not Be Bound)

  • Madrigals of war and love (published in The Decadent Review)

  • The Count of Nevers

  • Rededication

  • Visting Rabin Square, February 2017

  • Abacus

• Poems inspired by place

  • The daylight lingers in the summer till repose (published in the Spring 2020 issue of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal, page 412)

  • A day at Point Reyes long ago

  • Dolores Heights sky (published in the Spring 2020 issue of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal, page 410)

  • House at the shore (published in Volume 24 of Steam Ticket)

  • In the shadow of abundance (published in the Winter 2020 issue of The Courtship of Winds)

  • Unfashionable words (published in issue #2 of Ranger magazine)

  • Cyan

  • Middle East series

    • In transit

    • Valleys

    • Why we stopped in Petra (published in Issue 13 of Panoply, August 2019)

    • Visting Rabin Square, February 2017

    • Carmel shuk

    • Wadi Rum

    • Acculturation

• Everyday scenes

  • Aubade (The silent oboe) (published in issue VII of the Heron Clan anthology)

  • Urban portrait (published in the Spring 2020 issue of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal, page 408)

  • Lawns (published in issue 5 of Poetry Leaves, 2020)

  • Changes around here (published in the inaugural issue of WhimsicalPoet, February 2021)

  • Bright prospects

  • Composting

  • Islands

  • Nooks (published in issue #2 of Ranger magazine)

  • Warehouses (published in the 14th edition of DASH Literary Journal in May 2021)

  • A day like the others (published in the 2022 issue of Cæsura)

  • In a pool

  • Waiting out the rain (published in Issue 77 of Offcourse, June 20, 2019)

  • 5:34 (published in miller’s pond)

  • Cyan

  • In transit

  • Winter halo

  • Interlopers (published in Issue 9 ofBook of Matches)

  • The wait at twilight

  • Leaning

  • The railing

  • Receiving the thunderstorm

  • Lengthening light

  • Storm light

  • Cradling (published in the October 2022 issue of The Bluebird Word)

  • Reminder (published in NOMADartx Review)

  • Those dogs

  • In place of the book review section

  • Emptying the dishwasher

• Wry humor

  • Reminder (published in NOMADartx Review)

  • Do not repeat your self (published in the Spring 2020 issue of WestWard Quarterly)

  • Picking up stones (published in DASH Literary Journal, Volume 12, Spring 2019)

  • Stuffed (published in an Essential anthology)

  • To the editor who instructed me to cut my last stanza

  • Interlopers (published in Issue 9 ofBook of Matches)

  • Just remarking (published in Issue 77 of Offcourse, June 20, 2019)

  • Carmel shuk

  • Cityspans

  • Those dogs

  • Why write free verse?

  • Half life (published in the Summer 2022 issue of Vita Poetica, along with my audio recording)

  • Incandescent

  • Mimesis

  • Mute (published on June 10, 2020 by The Voices Project)

  • No longer (published in issue VIII of the Heron Clan anthology)

  • Palindrome (published in The RavensPerch on September 11, 2023)

  • Economics (published in the Fall 2021 issue of WhimsicalPoet: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry)

  • The railing

  • At the rehearsal (published in the Fall 2021 issue of WhimsicalPoet: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry)

  • Changes around here (published in the inaugural issue of WhimsicalPoet, February 2021)

  • Tense (published in Issue 3 of Too Well Away Literary Journal)

• Miscellaneous poems

  • Islands

  • Bewildered world

  • Four virtues (published in the Fall/Winter 2021 issue of Soul-Lit)

  • Rapture in the sky

  • The requirements

  • In our house

  • Curtains

  • Rare earths

  • Leaning

  • Blame It On My Age (parody)

  • We can’t be threadbare

  • Fixtures

  • Monday

  • Tuesday doldrums

  • How to ruin a day at the beach

  • Terraces

  • The railing

  • Bringing into being

  • Brief winter verses

• Summation

  • Summation