As tyrannical as a Sinai-perched deity, a poem gives us everything in the world to do: wax and wane, wage war and make peace, fall in love and make love and fall out of love and swear off love, increase and diminish and perish. A poem is Vishnu, dancing existence to existence, life to life, the sleeper awake, and it is Krishna, become death. Adorno said that to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric — true, we are barbaric, but not to write poetry after Auschwitz is heretical and traitorous. Poems create the world as it is, poems demand that the world become what it can, and poems annihilate the world as it was.
Poems
Snap Peas in a Pot and Timber Rattler (at Salvation South)
Lines Written during a Period of Insomnia (at Rust + Moth)
Boomerang (at Still: The Journal)
The Caul of Wasps (appeared in One)
Litany of Want and Night (at Melancholy Hyperbole, "Litany of Want" nominated for Best of the Net)
Orchard and Dollar Store (at Town Creek Poetry)
The Guest (appeared in Able Muse, finalist for the Write Prize)
The Death of the Grapevine (appeared in The Southern Poetry Anthology)
Anthologies
The Southern Poetry Anthology: volume 5, Georgia (Texas Review Press, 2012)
Co-translations
Cuadra: The Birth of the Sun and Manuscript in a Bottle (at Ezra: An Online Journal of Translation)
Interviews
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