until i can exhale the darkest ravine

*Published by Cold Moon Journal on 2/18/22

chained desire (part one)

between

grenades

blooming

*

fine but i could rip the skin off my bones

*

love

but the way

you cut stone

*Published by Heliosparrow on 2/10/22 

chained desire (part two)

but you

only heard

the river

*

after your body folding dusk

*

snow

fallen freshly

thrown

*Published by Heliosparrow on 2/10/22

 chained desire (part three)

if only the desert could wet my lips

*

before i lose myself again in the sea

*

within the storm a ripened forest

*Published by Heliosparrow on 2/10/22

 dropkick

i don’t want things to get too deep

but tell me if

you ever get him hard

*Published in the February 2022 issue of Versification

 oh i have been the untamed river

*Published in the February 2022 issue of brass bell: a haiku journal

 suture

our bodies

woven together

black dripping

with night

i exhumed

each thread

a lifetime

of memories

undone by

my hand

*Published by Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective on 1/23/22

 possibly

a sparrow

or a tsunami

*Published by Cold Moon Journal on 1/18/22

 all bang no whimper

it was an ordinary crash

each car tangled into

a web of metal and shards

maybe there was a fire

i walked out

and you got on your knees

to give your life to christ

the hotel had a full-length mirror

and for the first time in nearly a decade

i looked upon my own flesh

and said it was good

i’m almost certain there was a fire

in kindergarten i remember the drills

devise a plan

get out

you can’t stay in a burning home

humans are so primal

they see an inferno and their pupils

dilate in desire

but my hands are on fire

flames licking back my skin

to the bone and i'm honestly

too tired to care if

you touch me and the fire obliterates you

*Published in Skyway Journal on 1/7/22

**A 2023 Best of the Net nominee

 morning clouds

i pull the night

back into my bones

*Published in the January 2022 issue of brass bell: a haiku journal

dandelion seeds

float away in a muggy air

the friends i lost

when i decided

to honor my truth

*Published by Cold Moon Journal on 12/28/21

i find myself

standing before the sun

stitch me

heal me

in the places i cannot reach

*Published by Cold Moon Journal on 12/27/21 

 i am the night

and yet

your blue eyes

*Published in The Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Dialogue on 12/22/21

 where the moon crumbles into fog

*Published by horror senryu journal on 12/10/21

 id

y’know i wanna rip

this pair of red tights to the top

of my sex

scream topless at a waxing moon

too pure for my filth

*Published in the November 2021 issue of Versification

beyond our ache the birth of stars

*Published by Cold Moon Journal on 11/27/21

before the altar a charred root unfurls

*Published by horror senryu journal on 11/26/21

 this solitude a dew-covered marigold

*Published by Cold Moon Journal on 11/24/21

merlot and oh what a ride to hell

*

vines of ice climbing the walls of dreams

*

an anvil falls to the ocean’s floor. Such is regret

*

faith of a mustard seed fistfight

*

of plums and dragons. Gimme it all

*Published in Ant Ant Ant Ant Ant 2021

 peace until theraintheraintheraintherain

*

blank canvas but you chose the knife

*

between stars. rivers. the years disintegrate.

*

side eyeing the past present tense

*

moon. silver. your makeshift gods.

*Published in Ant Ant Ant Ant Ant 2021

upon my eyelashes

the remnants

of forgotten stars

*Published in the November 2021 issue of brass bell: a haiku journal

moon

over mountain

over sea

*Published by Cold Moon Journal on 10/30/21 

 a bluebird trills beneath my dreams

*Published by Cold Moon Journal on 10/29/21

peppermint oil

the autumn twilight

upon my skin

*Published in the October 2021 issue of Stardust Haiku

 removed

from the bustle of cars

a field of goldenrods

*Published in The Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Dialogue on 10/27/21