Poetry

Speculative poems published in Rattle, Star*Line, Reckoning, 580 Split, Radon, Abyss & Apex, Consilience, and others.

Featured Joints

Everything Burns Going Down — Radon Journal Issue 7
(Best of the Net 2025 nominee)

microcosm — Star*Line 46.4
(Dwarf Stars anthology selection)

oh to be — Reckoning 6
(Pushcart Prize nominee)

Schrödinger’s Ghazal — Consilience (Issue 18: Consciousness)
(Editor’s Pick)

You Have Died of Dysentery — Eye to the Telescope 40
(Pushcart Prize nominee)



Ate For Six — Breath Project 2020

Bishop Tried to Told Ya — FreezeRay 20

Blood Spatter of the Solar System — NOMBONO

Boomshakalaka — Videodame

Bread + Wine — Rogue Agent

Cloak by Ralph Ellison — Departure Mirror Quarterly

Closed Mouths Don’t Get Fed — Savor: Poems for the Tongue

Cruis’n Is Made for Love — Cartridge Lit

Death By Osmosis — Grand Little Things

Distant Rovers — TERSE. Journal

Drowning in an Amusement Park of My Own Making — Unwinnable

Flesh of My Flesh — 580 Split

For Those of Us Who Live at the Shoreline — 1619 Speaks: An Anthology of African American Poetry

Funkotron State of Mind — Defenestration

Garden Project 2055 — Future Splendor

heliocentric — FERAL

Life Sentence — Zhagaram Literary Magazine (Issue 03: Lexicon)

Man Cave — Visual Verse

man made machine god — Abyss & Apex

Married With Benefits — Star*Line

Masquerade Ball — Timbooktu

Mean to Be Free — 1619 Speaks: An Anthology of African American Poetry

Mission: Ares — Star*Line 44.2

Move, Mountain, Move — Reckoning 6

Of The Times — Black Lives Matter: Poems for a New World

One-Way Ticket (via Teleportation) — NOMBONO

Please Don’t Make Charlie Black – FreezeRay 20

Satin on Your Panties — Sage Cigarettes (Mixtape Issue)

Taggers of the Stratosphere — House of Zolo’s Journal of Speculative Literature, Vol. 3

That Dam Level — Unwinnable 

The Frida Train (a golden shovel) — Haven Spec

The Ghazal About ___________ — Rattle 84 (Tribute to the Ghazal)

the land at the end of age — Molecule (Issue 5 pg. 45)

The Two Towers (or: The Battle for the Throne in the Home of Biggie Smalls) — Headcanon Magazine

Two Places At Once — Constraint 280

UNBLOCKED — Sleet Magazine

untitled fall scifaiku — Space and Time 141

untitled sunset scifaiku — House of Zolo’s Journal of Speculative Literature, Vol. 3

very awkward this, it keeps going wrong — Book of Matches (Issue 7 pg. 37)

Welcome to Freedom! — Pensive (Issue 2 pg. 148)

what remains — Pensive (Issue 2 pg. 132)

Word Up — Magma 90: Grassroots

YU NAIM THE ANIMALL. — Headcanon Magazine