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RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

 

"Honorable Discharge" is in the winter, 2015 Boston Literary Magazine.

 

"My Thought Picnic" is in Uut Poetry (December, 8 2014)

 

"Last Night at the Holiday Inn," which originally appeared in The Molotov Cocktail,  appears in Silver Birch Press' series homage to Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem, "I am Waiting." 

 

"Species" appears in Right Hand Poininting, No. 81,  November, 2014. 

 

"Abandoned House" is in Heavy Feather Review's, Vacancies anthology.

 

"How I Didn't Meet Your Mother in San Francisco" is in The Molotov Cocktail (Volume 5, Issue 10). 

 

"Veterans Benefits" appears in the Los Angeles Times, August 31, 2014.

 

Two prose poems, "A Bite, Not a Sting," and "The Truth About Love," appear  at Camroc Press Review, in August, 2014.

 

"The Mug Shot Photographer" and "Veterans' Benefits" are published in the Summer, 2014 print issue of Off the Coast.

 

"In Medias Res" and "Abandoned House" appear the Summer, 2014 print issue of Heavy Feather Review.

 

"Freud's Parapractic Postcard to His Almost Pretty Wife, Martha" appears in the  humor issue (no. 77) of Right Hand Pointing, August,2014.   

 

“Love and Death in the Banking Industry,”  “Perfect Background Music," and “Amateur Advice,” appear in Festival Writer’s 200-Word flash fiction issue, August, 2014. 

 

Two, one-sentence poems, "Early Spring Evening Three-Car Collision" and "Blue Period" are at One Sentence Poems, June, 26, 2014.

 

"Friday Night Drive to Watertown" appears in the June 20, 2014 issue of Cease, Cows.

 

"The Distant Shooting I Hear Reminds Me of the Boys in Marketing," appears at Uut Poetry.

 

"Heat, Light, and Clarity" appears in Right Hand Pointing, No. 75 (Tenth Anniversary Issue.)

 

"Escape Artist" appears in Vol 5, Issue 2, (April, 2014) of The Molotov Cocktail

 

A Prisoner of Love," a prose poem, appears in an April, 2014 issue of  Cease, Cows.

 

 "Emo Girl and Me at El Vagabundo" and  "My Toughest Critic" appear in One Sentence Poems, April, 2014.  

 

"Last Supper" appears at 50 Word Stories. 

 

A number of micro-fiction pieces have been published by Eunoia Review, (March,  2014) including: “Priceless,” “Happy Cyborgs Split the Winnings” “At the MET” “Blond Ambition,” “But What a Lovely Way to Burn,” “Death, But You Get Used to It,” “Police Find Man’s Nude Body Crushed Beneath Malibu Mercedes,” “Benny 'Psycho' Whitmore Was At It Again,” and “Doug and Cats.”

 

Two illustrated micro-stories, "Stars and Bars" and "Naked to the Waist," appear, at Cease, Cows, Feb14, 2014.

 

"Betty's Prized Possession" is in Right Hand Pointing's issue No. 73.

 

The prose poem, "Your Words Are Like Heaven," appears in  Right Hand Pointing, No. 72, February 1, 2014. 

 

The prose poem, "Word Problems," appears in the Fall, 2013 issue of Third Wednesday.

 

""Movie Review," a found poem, appears in Right Hand Pointing No. 70, December, 2013.

 

"Thought Experiment" and "The Snow Leopard" appear in December, 3, 2013 at MadHad Lit.

 

"My Career in Poetry" is in Vol. 4, Issue 17 (December 2013) of The Molotov Cocktail.

 

"Some Assembly Required" a poem in which the first book of Genesis meets Ikea, is published by The Commonline Journal, November, 2013.

 

"The Last to Know" a 30-word poem is at Right Hand Pointing, No. 69, November, 2013.

 

"Horse Fly" is in the Fall issue of Boston Literary Magazine.

 

"I Drive to North Carolina the Day After the Execution of My Wife's Murderer," appears in the June 16, 2013 issue of Seattle's Commonline Journal.

 

"Visiting Los Angeles’ National Veterans Cemetery, Westwood, California," is in the Fall, 2013 print issue of San Pedro River Review

 

"Low Country" is at Right Hand Pointing September, 2013.

 

"Tin Man Has an Idea" is in Right Hand Pointing No. 66, August, 2013.

 

"My Financial Advisor's Investment Advice," appears in the July, 2013 issue of Right Hand Pointing.

 

"Half as Much As a Fish Needs a Bicycle" is in Vol.4, Issue 8 (July 15, 2013) of the The Molotov Cocktail.

 

Two miniature fiction pieces, "Shreveport Bank Job Mojo"and "I Meet the Noir Editor" are in the Summer, 2013 (No.23) issue of riverbabble."

 

"Ken Plans a Trip to Toys R Us" and "Me and Buddy at the Pink Elephant" appear in the Summer, 2013 issue of Boston Literary Magazine.

 

Both the text and audio of the poem, "What I Heard from the Girl WhoTends Bar at ‘The Blackboard’" are in the Spring 2013 issue of Sleetmagazine.com.

 

"Approaching Las Vegas on the Road the Devil Took (A Theodicy)" appears in Crack the Spine (no. 26)

 

"The Doppler Effect" appears in the Spring, 2013 issue of Maine's international poetry magazine, Off the Coast. "The Traveling Salesman Problem,”“The Next Thing You Know,”and “Rented Tux” are at the Camroc Press Review, May, 2013.

 

"Why Bob's Never Lost" is in Issue 4, No 4, (May 2013) of The Molotov Cocktail.

 

"A Girl Like You" appears in the Winter, 2013 issue of The Baltimore Review.

 

"Since Dad Left" and "After Hours" appear in Right Hand Pointing, No. 60. February, 2013.

 

"A Stabbing" appears at Short, Fast, and Deadly December, 2012.

 

"Writing the Complete Poem" appears at Burningword January, 2013.

 

"Cyborg's Blue Quantum Love Dance" is in the Winter, 2012 issue of Boston Literary Magazine.

 

"Hatchet Job," which appears at Little (flash) Fiction, has been released as an audio file, read by Xe Sands, at Going Public.

 

"Honey Gets Her Wish," which originally appeared in Third Wednesday, is read by Xe Sands.

 

"Mr. Wittgenstein Writes to Ms. Stein" is published in the Fall, 2012 issue of Off the Coast.

 

"French Final' appears in Blink Ink, vol 13 (Fall 2012).

 

"Even the Trees" and "Titanic" appear in the Fall issue of sleetmagazine.com .

 

"Street Jockey" appears in Right Hand Pointing (No. 56).

 

"Not Enough Bullets" appears in the Summer, 2012 issue of Third Wednesday.

 

"Hatchet Job" is released in e-book and tablet format at Little (flash) Fiction.

 

"Safety Dancing for the Recovering Arsonist," appears at The Molotov Cocktail (Volume 3, Issue 12) September, 2012.

 

"Echo and the Bunnymen," and "Listen Until Her Heart's Content," appear in "The Tower of Song Issue," (No. 55), of Right Hand Pointing.

 

"Pink X-Ray"appears in the 2012 issue of the Santa Fe Literary Review."

 

As You Leave" and "Saharan Ants" appear in the Summer, 2012 issue of MICROW.

 

"Best Man, Reconsidered," a 100-word "drabble" is in the Summer, 2012 Boston Literary Magazine.

 

"While Touring America, Marcel Marceau, Dining at the Des Moines IHOP, Realizes His Cruel Father, Who Forced Him to Train as a Mime, Wasn't Such a Bad Fellow, Afterall," is in Right Hand Pointing (No.53), July, 2012.

 

"Rouge Canoe", which originally appeared in Off the Coast, is reprised on the web at Reprint Poetry.

Burnt Ghosts

 

Burnt ghosts, carbon black,

what good are our tattoos,

no one can see them?

Frictionless, flame-smooth,

one degree above freezing,

we weigh less than ourselves,

unseen as salt on snow.

 

At the door, you can’t quite tell

if we are coming or going.

We pause for a posthumous cigarette

and watch the smoke rise in reverse,

our brilliant enthusiasms, difficult to discern,

our designs, undetectable.

 

Tonight, we drive out to Queens.

The houses, like deserts

folded in on themselves,

waiting for something colorful to happen.

 

This is where the world is.

 

Every 45 seconds in America,

a house catches fire.

 

Weather permitting.

 

 

 San Pedro River Review, Fall, 2011

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