Poetry (nature poems)

NOTE: Some of these poems were originally published in the books KAIROS, SELECTED POEMS, and 10 LOVE POEMS, which contain additional poems not found on this list. Click here for information about these books, and here for digital/ebook versions.

2012: Seasonally Home (The Bright Light Café, April 12, 2012)
2012: Arachnophobia Cured! (The World of Myth Magazine, Issue 52)
2012: Stopwatch (Chantarelle's Notebook, Issue #26) Featured Poet

2012: Pulse (The Bright Light Café, January 10, 2012)
2011: Stopwatch (the IMPpress, Issue 2, November 2011; print or PDF versions) Buy at the IMPpress

2011: Dryad Weeping on a Fallen Tree (Space and Time Magazine, Issue 115, Fall 2011) Buy at S&T website or e-version here

2011: Stopwatch (Symmetry Pebbles, Issue 1, August 2011; PDF)

2011: Before the Storm Wet the Earth (Wavelengths: 2011 Savant Anthology of Poetry) Buy at Amazon or Savant Books

2011: Stopwatch (Distilled Lives - The Illinois State Poetry Society 20th Anniversary Anthology) Buy at Amazon or Infinity Publishing

2011: The Hawk (Voices in the Wind, Issue 45)

2011: Stopwatch (Mad Swirl, February 19, 2011)

2011: Stopwatch (SpokenWar, January 2011)

2011: Stopwatch (Alternative Reel)

2011: Hubristic (Alternative Reel)

2010: Stopwatch (nthposition, February 10, 2010)

2010: Hubristic (River Poets Journal, Summer 2010, Volume 4, Issue 3; PDF)

2010: Arachnophobia Cured! (SubtleTea.com, May-July 2010)

2010: Before the Storm Wet the Earth (SubtleTea.com, May-July 2010)

2010: A Tree (Sacred Journey, April/May 2010)

2010: Before the Storm Wet the Earth (A Prairie Journal, Spring-Summer 2010)

2010: Spring (The Bugle newspaper, April 9, 2010; print and PDF versions)

2010: Before the Storm Wet the Earth (Prairie Light Review, Spring 2010)

2010: Before the Storm Wet the Earth (The DuPage Valley Review 2010) FREE print copy of the magazine here

2010: Pulse (Lunarosity, Vol. 8)

2010: Before the Storm Wet the Earth (Lunarosity, Vol. 8)

2010: Stopwatch (Poetry Monthly International, Issue 21, July 2010)

2010: Imagining a Change in Form to Establish Roots in Meaning (Naturewriting.com, November 2010)

2010: Little Fawn (Naturewriting.com, November 2010)

2010: Seasonally Home (Naturewriting.com, November 2010)

2010: Hubristic (Prairie Light Review, Fall 2010; print and PDF versions)

2009: Stopwatch (Down in the Dirt, June 2009 - v071)

2009: The Hawk (Down in the Dirt, July 2009 - v072)

2009: Arachnophobia Cured! (Spaceports and Spidersilk, March 2009)

2009: A Tree (The DuPage Valley Review, 2009 issue) FREE print copy of the magazine here

2009: Kiss Me Hello (The DuPage Valley Review, 2009 issue) FREE print copy of the magazine here

2009: Pulse (The DuPage Valley Review, 2009 issue) FREE print copy of the magazine here

2009: Stopwatch (The DuPage Valley Review, 2009 issue) FREE print copy of the magazine here

2009: Stopwatch (Crawling Through the Dirt compilation/Scars Publications, Summer 2009) Buy at Scars Publications

2009: The Hawk (echo compilation/Scars Publications, Fall 2009) Buy at Scars Publications

2009: Winter Vacation (Autumn Leaves, Volume 13, #24, December 15, 2009)

2009: Winter Vacation (Poet's Ink, December 2009)

2008: A Tree (Write On!! Poetry Magazette, January 2008)

2008: Before the Storm Wet the Earth (Poet's Haven)

2008: Untitled "song of toads" (Poet's Ink, October 2008)

2008: Waking (Poet's Ink, December 2008)

2007: Before the Storm Wet the Earth (Kane County Chronicle, publication date unknown)

2007: Seasonally Home (Kane County Chronicle, November 10, 2007)

2006: Before the Storm Wet the Earth (American Open Mike: The New American Voice #1; online only)

2006: Pulse (Kane County Chronicle, January 7, 2006)

2006: The Hawk (American Open Mike: The New American Voice #2; online only)

2006: Pulse (The Penwood Review, Volume 10, #2, Fall 2006) Buy from The Penwood Review

2006: Spring (Kane County Chronicle, June 10, 2006)

2006: Arachnophobia Cured! (Kane County Chronicle, publication date unknown)

2004: Twelve and 12 (Small Brushes/Adept Press, #18, October 2004-March 2005)

2004: Hubristic (Red Owl Magazine, Issue XVIII)

2004: The Hawk (Red Owl Magazine, Issue XVIII)

2004: Twelve and 12 (Kane County Chronicle, publication date unknown)

2003: Before the Storm Wet the Earth (Tryst, Issue VI, September 2003)

2002: Alone (The Pink Chameleon, Issue 3)

2000: Before the Storm Wet the Earth (Best of the 5th Annual Skyway Writers Festival, 1st Place: Poetry