Lament of the Wounded Deer

How to Resurrect a Deer

The Limitations of Science (Seven Tenets of Occult)

"Swamphen" & "Deer I Dream About"

Broken duplex for breaking & re-entry

Villanelle for my Villain Era

Friend; or another morning after binging Kids Baking Championship

Years pass & still the gap swallows
its own waters. The base widens,
edges narrowing as they crumble 
to rapids below. When I close my eyes
I see it all backwards:

the cascade reforms. Your quiet unhugs me...

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Ebbing

2 poems in & Change, Issue No. 3 (May 2023)

"Poetry Drag" and "Broken Duplex for Breaking and Entering"

When I’m done wanting the babies, I wonder
what fatherhood is. I wonder if my children will 
one day see my desk chair and think of throne. 
I am a second generation father; my father never knew...

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IV. Ode to the Emperor (some wild thing) FORTHCOMING

We take the back roads, point out the windows at reds
and yellows, the arch of autumn guiding us
to the orchard. Let’s buy a bag at the store, pretend
we drove the hour — but no, you say, it’s just

not the same. So we go...

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Fruit picking

found myself stippling          in frog ponds
	the years spent          lurking         searching

answers          praying, knees in leaves
	letting sticks dig          into me.

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Lady Slippers

—  after Ariana Reines — 


i’ve closed the ads
fingered

the seventeen tabs open
reveling

deep warming violence
hating

the world a bit
less

lean male bodies’ vees
sculpted

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My Porn Poem

7 poems:

- "Magic Squares at Christmas Eve"
- "Magic Square Talisman 1: Beginnings"
- "Magic Square Talisman 2: Air"
- "Magic Square Talisman 3: Fire"
- "Magic Square Talisman 4: Water"
- "Magic Square Talisman 5: Earth"
- "Talismans // Prayers"

7 Poems in Response

— after Alexandrea Teague’s “’My Country, ‘Tis of Thee’ (arranged for Brazen Bull)”


Bellows and bolts     and the king     and the king’s rage

at the price of freedom     the fire   the face like fire hot-orange

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Jake Phillips

Selected work