“A Beautiful Day to Be Buried”: Consequence, reprinted in Wrath Bearing Tree

“Blue,” “Father”: Muse

“Cataract,” “Camellia,” “Camellia at Midnight,” “Bradford Pears”: Dodging the Rain

“Hunger Pangs”: Gnashing Teeth

“Past Imperfect,” “Adrift”: Flying South

“Crazed Chirping and Flapping Outside My Morning Window,” “Keepsake”: Storied Stuff

“Appetency,” “A Few Ways”: The Ravens Perch

“Wishful Thinking,” “August. Again”: Grailing Magazine

“A House Is Going Up Next Door” (originally published as “Progress”): Matter Monthly

“Ghost Light, 2020,” “The Snake”: Bombay Literary Magazine

“Shinrin-Yoku”: Latin Anthology, an anthology of modern verse   

“Keeping a Moving Distance from the Sun”: Free State Review

“Alea Iacta Est,” “Naming”: The Ravens Perch

“There’s a Piano Nearby”: K’in

“For Luck”: Nimrod

“The Horse Speaks” (originally titled “Nomad”): Tarot Literary Review

“Tropism”: Boats Against the Current

“My Mother’s Desk” (originally titled “Parade of Tears”): Kitchen Table Quarterly

“The Tree Speaks” (originally titled “The Feel of Passing Through”), “The Piano Speaks” (originally titled “Grand Piano”): Art for Everyone

“A Bad Month for Optimists”: Birmingham Poetry Review

“Finger of God”: Cider Press Review

“Siren”: Hamilton Stone Review

“Hunger into Song,” “What Will Happen When It’s Time to Go?”, “But Almost,” “Morning,” “Mistaken,” “Looking for the Lines,” “Flutter,” “Angel,” “Hurricane,” “Bottomless,” “Not to Pour but to Hum,” “Catacomb,” “Long Necklace,” “Tell Me If Anything is Ever Finished,” “Beyond Which”: from the chapbook, “The Warm Absence Where You Just Were,” Galileo Press, 2024

“Personal History”: The Towson Flier.“Pro-Choice,” “Personal History,” “Tilling the Grave” and “Lullabye”: Fires at Yellowstone (The Bacchae Press, 1993).

“In the Pasture of Dead Horses”: The Journal, and the 1995 Pushcart Anthology.“This Church”: The Louisville Review.“In the Pasture of Dead Horses,” “This Church,” “Tilling the Grave,” and “Old Things”: Wheeler Lane (Igneus Press, 1998).

“Once a Month He Gets the Kids”: Prairie Schooner, Scared Money Never Wins (Finishing Line Press, 2004).

“Burning the Barn,” After the Divorce”: Birmingham Poetry Review.“The Museum of Modern Art at 6 am”: Bayou .“Once a Month He Gets the Kids,” “Burning the Barn,” “The Museum of Modern Art at 6 am,” and “After the Divorce”: Dark Track (Word Tech Editions, 2005).

“The Get-a-way,” “The Shower Cap”: Prairie Schooner.“Why I Love to Drink”: Southern Indiana Review.“Blue Stuff”: Nebraska Review. “Something with Diamonds in It”: Confrontation.” .“The Get-a-way,” “Why I Love to Drink,” “The Shower Cap,” “Blue Stuff,” “Something with Diamonds in It,” “The Art Project”: The Sorry Flowers (Word Tech Editions, 2009).

“Wafers”: Gargoyle .“Summoned”: JMWW.“Cream of Tartar,” “Under the Influence,” “Atlas”(Originally titled “Lists”),“Their Fantastic Mother,” “Chocolate Sauce,” Wafers,” and “Summoned”: Take This Spoon (Main Street Rag Press, 2014).

“It Came to Nothing”: Sloflopojo.“Shared Custody”: Cumberland Poetry Review.“The Anorexic Teaches Her Children”: The American Journal of Poetry.“Southpaw”: Cimarron Review.“Shared Custody,” “The Anorexic Teaches Her Children,” “Southpaw,” Ripple Effect,” “Kites”: The Art of Falling (FutureCycle Press, 2022).

“Owl,” As It Ought to Be

“Hammock”: Quartet

“Northern Spies”: Summerset

“August Outro”: Wild Roof

“Nude Descending a Staircase”: The Bombay Literary Magazine

“Birthday Gift”: The Poeming Pigeon

“Fleeing for my Life”: Salvation South

Excerpt from Finding My Distance (Galileo Press, 2009)

“Twenty-Six Point Two”: from Come to the X (Galileo Press, 2020)