Folklore of the Self"Folklore of the Self" explores trauma in reverse-chronological order, delving into the past as constructed narrative.Fahmidan & Co. Publishing, 2023
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Poet, educator, man-moth (with all due respect to Elizabeth Bishop).
VA, United States
Chapbooks
Selected work (16 publications)
1925"doomed: a word like the toll of a bell, beckoning/ towards death. blue marl clay shrink-swell soil/ in their mouths, under nails, clod-handfuls in fists/ which push whitely toward the air..."
poetry
Anachronisms (Three Poems)"the warbling spring slopes down to touch your shoulder/
where blouse slips below socket & you remember/
the way sun was a kind of melancholy hope in those days"
poetry
experimental
hybrid
Fairland Street"the crimp of pain/ behind my eyes, migraine/ efflorescing// like the sudden exuberance of blooms/ on the bradford pear, cheaply/ beloved of blowflies"
poetry
Piece of Me" not like her fur, a smooth enticement / but like a peach ripening / in the summer sun "
poetry