SPECULATIVE POETRY

These are my science fiction, fantasy, and horror poems. The periodical listed after each title is where the poem first appeared (outside my books). See BIBLIOGRAPHY for a more detailed publication history.

pp = prose poem

Current (2021-present)

Lust on the Battlefield (non-extant) - pp

A Sacrifice for Love (Spectral Realms 2027) - pp

The Valley (JOURN-E: The Journal of Imaginative Literature 2026) - pp

Honorary God (Spectral Realms 2026) - pp

Exiled Imp, The (non-extant) - pp

Rise and the Fall, The (non-extant) - pp

Kaffeklubben Island (non-extant) - pp

Haul Away Moe (non-extant) - pp

Figures (website exclusive) - pp

Variations on the I Ching (with Jennifer Crow) (Eternal Haunted Summer 2024)

Winter Solstice (II) (unpublished)

Fortune's Faces (with Jennifer Crow; unpublished)

The Thing at the Dream Gate (JOURN-E: The Journal of Imaginative Literature 2024; flash fiction accepted as prose poem) - pp

Walking the Suburb (Yellow Mama Webzine 2024)

Winter Solstice (I) (Enheduanna: A Pagan Literary Journal 2026)

Not a Writer (Aphelion: The Webzine of Science Fiction & Fantasy 2024)

In Dreams (Flash Digest 2024; prose poem accepted as flash fiction) - pp

How Some People Disappear (Spaceports & Spidersilk 2024)

Venom and Bite (Yellow Mama Webzine 2024)

In the Old Grove with You (unpublished)

Thwarted (unpublished)

Eternal Love, Eternal Night (The Vampiricon; 2023 anthology from Mind's Eye Publications) - pp

Conjoined Creatures (The Vampiricon; 2023 anthology from Mind's Eye Publications)

Wormholes (non-extant)

Synchronous Fireflies (non-extant)

Earth's Reclamation/Next Up (Star*Line 2023)

The Great and Final Feast (Spectral Realms 2024) - pp

They Sing Me Along (Space & Time Magazine 2023) - pp

Mother Nature and the AI Poet (JOURN-E: The Journal of Imaginative Literature 2023)

Servant of the Siren (Spectral Realms 2023) - pp

When Confronted by an Elder God... (Aphelion: The Webzine of Science Fiction & Fantasy 2024)

Awakening (Aphelion: The Webzine of Science Fiction & Fantasy 2023)

Incident at the Galactic Tollbooth (non-extant)

A Danger of Outer Space Hide 'n' Seek (SpecPoVerse 2026)

Pitcher Plant (Star*Line 2022)

From Below (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2022) - pp

Final Gathering (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2022) - pp

Ratri and the Grieving Botanist (Eternal Haunted Summer 2021) - pp

Suburban Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia suburbiana (Not One of Us 2022; 2023 Rhysling Award nominee) - pp

Last Soldier on the Beach (Spectral Realms 2022) - pp

The God of Dark Fantasy Prose-Poetry (Spectral Realms 2022) - pp

Wandering Albatross (JOURN-E: The Journal of Imaginative Literature 2022)

The Next Incarnation of Joan (The Fifth Di... 2022) - pp

A Changed Man (Spectral Realms 2026; flash fiction accepted as a prose poem) - pp

Mother Earth's Red Sister (JOURN-E: The Journal of Imaginative Literature 2022) - pp

Slishra-Ew (Weird Fiction Quarterly 2023; prose poem accepted as flash fiction) - pp

Lifer (Illumen 2022) - pp

The Moth Fairies Pay a Visit (Space & Time Magazine 2022) - pp

Allure of the Western Sky (Spectral Realms 2021)

Haviland Crater (Awen 2022)

Desert Roots (abandoned)

Death Droplet (abandoned)

2010-2020

Belch (Space & Time Magazine 2012) - pp

Faerystruck Down (Tales of the Talisman 2013; 2014 Rhysling Award nominee)

Ghoul of the Enamel (Spectral Realms 2015) - pp

Goblins Came, The (The World of Myth Magazine 2012)

Illusion for the Web of Roads (Sein und Werden 2012) - pp

Intimate Universes (Tales of the Talisman 2014; 2015 Rhysling Award nominee)

Making Amends (Star*Line 2013)

Misery of He Who is Outside the Realm of Man (Tales of the Talisman 2014) - pp

Neutral Ground (The Linnet's Wings 2014) - pp

Never Let It In (Death Throes Webzine 2013)

New Pattern (The Speculative Edge 2012)

Out of the Ad Space (Aoife's Kiss 2012; voted best poem of Issue 42)

Politician's New Heart, The (The Speculative Edge 2012) - pp

Post-Funeral Mission to Mars (Tales of the Talisman 2014) - pp

Sketch by Sketch (Rose Red Review 2014) - pp

Time to Grow Up Where There's No Time at All (Mythic Delirium 2012)

Usurpers Evil

What We Know of Goddesses (Tales of the Talisman 2015) - pp

Before 2010

Arachnophobia Cured! (Spaceports and Spidersilk 2009)

Dryad Weeping on a Fallen Tree (Space & Time Magazine 2011)

Each Second That Passes (Penny Dreadful 1999)

Glass Hope (Death Head Grin Anthology, Vol. 1, 2012)

Impatient, The (Thirteen Myna Birds 2011; SNM Horror Magazine's Best of 2012)

Killing a Man on a Bridge for Pleasure (Death Head Grin 2011) - pp

Props at My Funeral, The (Poetry Super Highway 2009; Thick With Conviction's Best of the Net 2011 nominee)

Somewhere (4th Annual Skyway Writers Festival Honorable Mention, 1999)

Stopwatch (Down in the Dirt 2009; featured on a UK-based radio program in 2013; Poetry Kit's Poem of the Week, 2013)

Ted (Catfish Gringo River 2011)

White Goddess, The (non-extant)

White Truth (Songs of Innocence 1999)

Yeti, The (children's poem; website exclusive)