Sunday, January 1, 2012

MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS

Thoughts & Observations
"A few years ago, while visiting St. Louis..." (Original title: Subjective Beauty)
"A light is brightest..."
"Day is a bright open eye..."
"From my point of view..."
"I grieve for the storytellers..."
"I'm slipping from my skin..."
"In the pitch black of the future..." NEW
Journal entries from old notebook (non-extant)
Journal entries from Morton Arboretum nature writing class 2004
Journal entries from Wildbranch Writing Workshop 2004 (non-extant)
"Some memories are scars..." NEW
"Once, at a Waffle House..." (Original title: Subjective Beauty)
Ranty Thing: The Internet (non-extant)
"The earth and the sky..." [coming soon]
"Why do I seek truth..."
"You awoke one morning..."
Essays, Articles, & Reviews
Book Review: The Ghost in  the Corner and Other Stories by Lord Dunsany NEW
Cri du Chat Syndrome
Environmental Ethics: Development
Promoting the Concept of Perception as a Recreation
Suburbia and Suburban Wildlife
Humor & Other Oddities
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ALL POETRY

This is a complete list of all my poems. Most can be read by clicking the title. Some are only available in print. For a detailed publication history, see the "Ongoing Poetry Appearances" tab above.

 *******7 New Stars
14 April 2005
A Bit of the Mystery Come
A Climbing Rose in a Ruin
A Glimpse of Where I'm Going
A Good Time (unpublished)
A Holiday for the Heart
A Lament for Sylvia
A Moment is Riding Time
A Night on the Beach (only in print version of Kairos)
A Poem to My Dead Love
"A toad trilling..."
A Tree
A Year of Perfect Days
About Love
"Above the creek..." (unpublished) [coming soon]
Afterword (unpublished)
All Because of You (unpublished)
"All the right words..."
Alone
American and the Armenian, The
"...and there was a connection to the earth..."
Arachnophobia Cured!
At Every Level NEW
Bane of a Closed Man, The (unpublished)
Beauty Effect (unpublished)
Beer Can Hands
Before the Storm Wet the Earth (1st place poetry, 5th Annual Skyway Writers Festival)
Belch
Below Zero
Beneath the Waves
Beyond the Horizon (non-extant)
Binary Star (non-extant)
Bite of Egomania, The (unpublished)
Bleak Hour, The
Bloom of Gray (unpublished)
Boarding Up an Empty Heart (unpublished)
Broken Hearts in Paris
Brown Creeper NEW
Bullhorn (non-extant)
"Butterfly must now land..." [coming soon] NEW
Butterfly
By Way of Your Misleadings
Can You Dig It, Girl?
Catbird, The (possibly the first poem I ever wrote)
Comfort Zone
Commercial for the Wide-eyed and Lonely (unpublished)
Common Yellowthroat at Dusk [coming soon] NEW
Could You Stay the Night, Forever?
Crestfallen
"Daffodils..." NEW
Damsel Fly!
Dark Bars and 1 Drink Too Many (unpublished)
Dawn Chorus (featured on a UK-based radio program)
Day & Night (unpublished)
Demon Hands Upon Her Skin
Denied
Done (non-extant)
Dream Work (non-extant)
Dreams of a Garden (unpublished)
Dryad Weeping on a Fallen Tree
Each Second That Passes
Eidolon
Empty Thrush, The
"End of winter..." [coming soon] NEW
End, the
Existence of You, The (Long Story Short, Poem of the Month, February 2014)
Faerystruck Down (2014 Rhysling Award nominee)
Falling Apart
Fish-tailing (only in print version of Kairos)
"Forced to look at the illusion of myself..." (fragments; unpublished)
Free to Go (unpublished)
Fresh Morning
"From my point of view..."
From Red to Green (unpublished)
Frozen at the Leaving (unpublished)
Ghoul of the Enamel
Glass Hope
Goblins Came, The
Gold 'n' Blue Sunrise
Good Night
Hawk, The
Heart Longs to Love, The (unpublished)
Hearts' Embrace, The
Heart-shaped Cocoon
Her Day
Hermit Thrush NEW
Holding Hands (a simple pleasure)
Home
"How can I dream of you..." (fragment; unpublished)
How I Find Light (non-extant)
Hubristic
I Forgive Your Cautious Heart (unpublished)
I Know a Girl (unpublished)
I Love You (Best of the Web - Love Life Poems)
(I sometimes watch)
"I walk past laughing lovers..."
"I want to be..." NEW
I Will Rise and Look Upon Her (unpublished)
"I shook with longing..." (fragment; unpublished)
I.D.H. and F.H.L. (only in print version of Kairos)
I. Bottle. Situation. (unpublished)
Identity
Illusion for the Web of Roads
"I'm slipping from my skin..."
Imagining a Change in Form to Establish Roots in Meaning
Impatient, The
Imperfection
In Pursuit of a Better Day (only in print version of Kairos)
In Spite of Candlelight
In the Dawn [coming soon] NEW
In This Fragile Time Between Heartbeats
Intimate Universes (2015 Rhysling Award nominee)
"It isn't her fault…"
It's All Good (after the rain falls)
Ivory, Bills, and Woodpeckers (only in print version of Kairos)
Kaleidoscope
Key to a Woman's Heart is Within the Man, The
Kicking Sand in the Face of Indolence
Killing a Man on a Bridge for Pleasure
Kiss Me Hello
Kiss of Two Cities, The (non-extant)
Labyrinth Mouth (unpublished)
Last Words
Leaving the Old Us
Life Granted, The
Little Fawn
Little Girl
Little Me in My Big Badass World
Look at a Photograph
Look at a Photograph (Public Display version) [coming soon]
Love and Words
Love Will Glue These Br-oken Pi-ece-s
Lust in Cyberspace (non-extant)
Making Amends
Man at the Window
Matricide
Me?
Metamorphosis (unpublished)
Meteor Showers (I'm not crazy) (only in print version of Kairos)
Misery of He Who is Outside the Realm of Man
Moonshadow
Morning Rain
Mostly
"Mr. Red-winged Blackbird..." [coming soon] NEW
My Clearest Day
My Love, My Dream
My Morning Sickness
My Unread Poetry
Neutral Ground
Never Let It In
New Pattern
Not So Bad (only in print version of Kairos)
Obnoxious to LS (a series of intentionally bad poems written for a particular occasion; unpublished)
One Sand Grain of 6.5 Billion
Only A Dream?
Out of the Ad Space (voted best poem of Aoife's Kiss #42)
Outside, the Silent Garden
Pace of Waiting, The
Paper (non-extant)
Phoenixes
Poet (nominated for Best of the Net 2014)
Poetaster
Politician's New Heart, The
Post-Funeral Mission (to Mars)
Promise of an Eagle, to a Friend
Props at My Funeral, The (nominated for Best of the Net 2011)
Prothonotary Warbler at Dawn [coming soon] NEW
Psalm of My Own
Pulse
Quieting the Agnostic (unpublished)
Roman Today (non-extant)
Room that Isn't There, The (unpublished)
Ruffed Grouse NEW
Saint Agnes
Searching for Shibboleth (non-extant)
Seasonally Home
Sentimental Blue
Shadows Falling from the Heart
Sharing the Moon
She Could've Been (My Constellation Prize) (unpublished)
Shimmer
Since Nothing of Us Remains (unpublished)
Since You Went Away
Sketch by Sketch
Sky (non-extant)
Sleepover
Somewhere (honorable mention, 4th Annual Skyway Writers Festival)
"Song Sparrow sings and sings..."
Spring
"Spring migration..."
Stopwatch
Stuck With It (unpublished)
Subliminal Antihero Hero
Submission (only in print version of Kairos)
subtlety
Sunset
Swimming Towards the Surface
Symptoms of My Envy (are clear), The
Ted
"The crow flying down the silent ally..." (fragment; unpublished)
These Things
This is Your New Life (w/PIN #)
This One Heart (unpublished)
Thoughts of Away (non-extant)
Though Unseen, Her Soul Is Lucid
Tiger (unpublished)
Time to Grow Up Where There's No Time at All
Tired (unpublished)
To You
"Together/in the Pacific Northwest..."
Trapped in the Inside World
Trees Outstanding
Trout Swimming Upstream for Nickels and Dimes (winner, Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge, Dec. 2009)
Twelve and 12
Unborn (non-extant)
Usurpers Evil (unpublished)
Waking
Walking Into Yesterday, Tonight
We Call Them the Gods
"We were defining what it was..." (fragment; unpublished)
What We Are
When I am Loved by You
When We Would Touch (unpublished)
Where He Sleeps
Where She Sleeps
Whispers
White Goddess, The (non-extant)
White Heart
White Truth
"Winter at dawn..."
Winter from Below
Winter Vacation (non-extant)
Winter Wren [coming soon] NEW
Winterbloom
Words Are All I Have
Yeti, The (unpublished)
You are the Sunset, I am the Sun (unpublished)
"You found me, rebuilt me..." (fragment; unpublished)
You've Entered My Heart
POETRY FROM OLD NOTEBOOK (juvenilia)
A Man Lays Down
A Real Cut-Up
"A rose, by candlelight..."
"Acid rain drips off the unspoken tongue..."
Another Reason I Love You
"Anticipation has made this..." (fragment)
"Autumn turns me your favorite colors..."
"Bird of Paradise..."
"Counting stars..." (fragment)
"Crumbling ships press on..."
...Early to Rise
"I am a flake off the scalp of insanity..." (fragment)
"I fumbled over my waking..."
"I have no gestures for my story..." (fragment)
"I should go explore the cosmos..." (fragment)
I Stand, Waiting
"I'd have been a beggar..." (fragment)
"I will pull you into view..."
"If there is anything impossible..." (fragment)
"If you're ever free to wander..." (fragment)
"I open my arms to an avalanche..." (fragment)
Is Love...
"I've wondered about Time..."
Last Broken Day, The
"Lately/In the forest..."
"Let's say you actually dig your way to China..."
Let Us Go There
More
"My love emeritus..." (fragment)
No Words Will Lift Her
Not to Know
Oliver, Then Me
"Once, I cursed God..."
"Outside I hear life going on..."
Painting
"Pen writes the word..."
People
Plenty of Curious Hummingbirds
"Pulling me behind her..." (fragment)
Red-petaled Pathway, The
"She is Love..."
"She's so adorable when..." (fragment)
Silence Numbs the Bell (fragment)
Something So Beautiful (fragment)
Thanksgiving is Upon Us, Which Means...
"The eye in the keyhole..." (fragment)
"The tail-tip of night..." (fragment)
"The tear that once cried itself dry..." (fragment)
"Today is another holiday..."
To Deserve You
Under the Horizontal Glare
"We have to pull the gap..."
"Where is the ferryman..."
"Where were your thoughts..."
Will You Love Me Then?

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FICTION (mostly speculative)

This is a list of all my (mostly) science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories. Most can be read by clicking the title. Unless otherwise noted, the publication listed after each title is where the story first appeared. For a detailed publication history, see the "Ongoing Story Appearances" tab above.

ss = short story
ff = flash fiction
mf = micro-fiction

An Interview with Creepyboy Jack (juvenilia; unpublished) - ff
"An old woman sat in her flower garden..." (non-extant) - mf
Blackout Killer, The (Tales to Terrify, audio podcast 2016) - ss
Bright Moon Stray (Flashshot 2012) - ff
Charon Falls into the Styx (Bards and Sages Quarterly 2012) - ff
Cocky Fisherman, The (unpublished) - mf
Dead Man Who Appears, The (Spire Magazine 1998; also a 1999 Pushcart Prize nominee) - ss
Deal Down at the Hospital (MicroHorror 2012) - ff
Emily's Meadow (Schlock! Webzine 2013) - ss
Emma's Favorite Thing to Look At (Pond Ripples Magazine 2011) - ff
Girl with the Crooked Spine (Electric Spec 2014) - ss
Heart that Sizzled in the Devil's Palm, The (hard copy only; unpublished) - ss
Hunchback's Captive, The (The Horror Zine 2014; Editor's Pick Writer, October) - ss
Johnny No One (juvenilia; unpublished) - ff
Not for Mortal Eyes (Disturbed Digest 2014) - ss
Penumbra (Black Petals 2011; Editors' Choice at Bewildering Stories 2012) - ff
Potawatomi Island (Electric Spec 2015) - ss
Prairie, The (hard copy only; unpublished) - ss
Red Icicles (Flashes in the Dark 2011) - ff
Shouldn't Have Locked You in the Closet (non-extant) - mf
Soulsucker (Schlock! Webzine 2014; collaboration story) - ss
Spiral of Flies (Morpheus Tales 2013) - ss
Strings (NewMyths.com 2012) - ff
Tramp Clown's Secret, The (Space and Time Magazine 2014) - ss
Unfortunate Heartbreak of Faritook the Earwig, The (State of Imagination 2011) - ff


Rough Drafts:
Behind the Hagioscope
Chapel of the Pitch Black Forest
Current Theory of the Otherworldly Head
Lumberjack's Beard, The
Of Trysts and Hellbenders
Off the Earth Hook-Up
Soldier on the Beach, The
Trespasser in the Poets' Court
Untitled story about alien abduction and dinosaurs
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