Selected poems published internationally in literary journals.

Every Dead Thing

It takes me by the scruff of skin as dawn
Gags here at the old red brick wall chinking
Through the frontage of the fast-food mall.

What remains of the town half full to smoke—
Clouds during the great Sack of York. Close your eyes,
Smell the flesh, note the screams, the thunder of siege guns.

The blackness still seeded in the clouds. Everywhere

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Published by Cyphers Magazine

Siphonaptera

Death today
is flung across the chopping block
desk; cheek pressed against the scrawls
of sexually-frustrated figure painters:
love hearts, Kalashnikovs, swastikas;
a thousand kind of cocks.

None, notably, pendent.

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Published by Honest Ulsterman

The Wonder Year

limp-wristed boy your ear is in my mouth
I am telling you the secrets of life you are
shaping like my nose is a snout I am a pig
stuck in your business my tongue thrumming your
apple-eyed sketch of the world cut lawns
hedgerows April daffodils waxless sheets always
on time dinners who is looking out for you

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Published by Sentinel Literary Quarterly