Hey, Lady

Thank you to Shaw Patton and everyone at Barzakh for publishing my poem “Hey, Lady” in their Winter 2024 issue. There’s a fabulous description of the magazine on the website describing the name which refers to “the connecting link, the “between” of something, such as different spheres of existence. As a temporal concept it can be, and historically was, considered an interval of time.”

And in the editorial note, Shaw Patton says “ “barzakh” in Arabic refers to a place between death and resurrection.” It’s a beautiful online magazine out of the University at Albany, SUNY.

To read the rest of the issue, click on the cover image below.

Impermanence

The Birdseed has published my tiny story “Impermanence” in this gorgeous issue (click image to read). Thank you, Kourtney Jai, for selecting my work, and for celebrating small fictions. Here is what she says about this issue:

The Birdseed celebrates short fiction–stories of 150 words or less. We’re drawn to short fiction for a few reasons: it is in many ways a more accessible medium to read, it takes a whole lot of talent to write, it provides a challenge to the imagination, and it invokes mystery. Short fiction, by necessity, leaves much unsaid. And it is in what’s unsaid that this issue takes shape.

These 38 pieces are beautifully crafted, without exception. They delight and they linger and they swerve, stars making way for sea and the dark and things even deeper. They show and they impress and they trust you, reader, to find the gaps and embrace what’s left unsaid.


Knell

“Knell” is a one-sentence prose-like poem prompted by the definition of the word knell:

1: a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster)

2: an indication of the end or the failure of something” (Merriam Webster)

Thank you to Ashley Wagner and everyone at Five on the Fifth for publishing it.

Cover art: Mario Loprete

Lime Tree in Michigan

MASKS Literary Magazine’s fall issue is up today, and they’ve published “Lime Tree in Michigan.” Thank you to L.A. Hawbaker and the MASKS team for selecting this poem. The art in this issue is gorgeous.