OTHER POETRY

This is a list of poems that fall outside the aforementioned categories. Many were published in various periodicals before appearing in my books. A few were never published at all. Several titles are missing, as these poems were either lost, destroyed, or only exist as hand-written drafts in scattered locations.

Current (2021-present)


Skugge (non-extant; composed on paper and spoken aloud before being offered to the fire in my wood-burning stove)

Untitled poem for Skaði, the Norse goddess (non-extant; composed in my head and spoken aloud just once; it was never written down)

Headwaters (first published in SHADOWS AND SPARKS in 2024)

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

The World Wide Wound (abandoned)

In Shadow (first published in SHADOWS AND SPARKS in 2024)

"When morning stretches her arms in a burst of light…" (non-extant)

Pensive (first published in SHADOWS AND SPARKS in 2024)

Progress (first published in SHADOWS AND SPARKS in 2024)

Ode to the Winter Heart (first published in SHADOWS AND SPARKS in 2024)

99.9% of Artists (first published in SHADOWS AND SPARKS in 2024)

Jar (first published in SHADOWS AND SPARKS in 2024)

Held in Shadow (first published in SHADOWS AND SPARKS in 2024)



Lost Dad (first published in Black Ink Fiction in 2022 as a drabble)

"What falls apart, ends, decays..." (first published in Awen in 2022)

How Some Choose to Remember (abandoned)


2010-2020


"All the right words..." (
Featured on NPR's All Things Considered on April 14, 2019)


Beyond the Horizon (non-extant)

Binary Star (non-extant)

Bullhorn (non-extant)

Done (non-extant)



Goodbye, Romance (non-extant)


Paper (non-extant)


Sky (non-extant)

Thoughts of Away (non-extant)

White Heart


Before 2010



A Good Time (unpublished)


A Night on the Beach (
exists only in the print version of Kairos)


Afterword (unpublished)


Beauty Effect (unpublished)



Bloom of Gray (unpublished)

Boarding Up an Empty Heart (unpublished)




Commercial for the Wide-eyed and Lonely (unpublished)


Dark Bars and 1 Drink Too Many (unpublished)

Demon Hands Upon Her Skin


Dream Work (non-extant)




Fish-tailing (exists only in the print version of Kairos)

"Forced to look at the illusion of myself..." (fragment; unpublished)

Free to Go (unpublished)

Frozen at the Leaving (unpublished)



"How can I dream of you..." (fragment; unpublished)

I. Bottle. Situation. (unpublished)

I Know a Girl (unpublished)

"I shook with longing..." (fragment; unpublished)

I Will Rise and Look Upon Her (unpublished)


I.D.H. and F.H.L. (exists only in the print version of Kairos)


In Pursuit of a Better Day (
exists only in the print version of Kairos)



Ivory, Bills, and Woodpeckers (
exists only in the print version of Kairos)


Labyrinth Mouth (unpublished)



Little Girl (4th Annual Skyway Writers Festival F
inalist, 1999)

Lust in Cyberspace (non-extant)



Metamorphosis (unpublished)

Meteor Showers (I'm not crazy) (exists only in the print version of Kairos)



Not So Bad (
exists only in the print version of Kairos)

Obnoxious poems to LS (a series of intentionally bad poems; unpublished)



Poet (nominated for Best of the Net 2014)


Quieting the Agnostic (unpublished)

Roman Today (non-extant)

Room that Isn't There, The (unpublished)

Saint Agnes

Searching for Shibboleth (non-extant)



Sleepover

Stuck With It (unpublished)


Submission (
exists only in the print version of Kairos)

Sunset


This One Heart (unpublished)

Tiger (unpublished)

Tired (unpublished)


Trout Swimming Upstream for Nickels and Dimes (
Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge, 
1st placeDec. 2009)

Unborn (non-extant)


When We Would Touch (unpublished)


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