Poems
Poems from my current manuscript (tentatively titled “Parallax”):
- “The AI Seeks a Pattern in Grief as the Lunar Barque Approaches Land,” Snakeskin, issue 326, March 2025
- “The Archaeoastronomer Considers the Intrinsic Error in the First Compass She Brought to the Menhir,” Broadkill Review, Winter 2024
- “The Archaeoastronomer Considers The Photographer’s Views on the Afterlife,” “The Diarist Welcomes the Poet, the Archaeoastronomer, and The Programmer Aboard Ship,” and “The AI Guides the Programmer into the Monument It Created for Her Father,” Marrow, July 2024
- “The Lunar Colony AI Begins to Build a Monument to the Programmer’s Father,” Strange Horizons, May 2024
- “The Archaeoastronomer Learns of the Destruction of the Menhir,” ionosphere, vol 1, issue 1, February 2023
- “The Poet Responds to an Invitation from the AI on the Moon,” Radon Journal, issue5, September 2023
- “The Archaeoastronomer Visiting the Lunar Colony Recalls her Childhood Misreading of ‘Sleeping Beauty,'” and “The Archaeoastronomer Explains to the American’s Daughter Why a Compass Will Not Work on the Moon” Eccentric Orbits: An Anthology Of Science Fiction Poetry – Volume 3, April 2022
- “The Hologram Princess on the Moon Considers the Pillars Surrounding Her,” first place, long form, in the 2022 Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Society Contest.
- “The Archaeoastronomer Questions the Purposes of the Destroyed Neolithic Menhir,” third place, short form, in the 2020 Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Society Contest.
- “The Beast of Buchan,” Snakeskin, November 2020
Poems that appear in Doubt & Circuitry:
- “CONELRAD 1960 / COVID 2020” Fireside, June 2022
- “Transcript,” and “When you asked, I was a diagram,” Eccentric Orbits: An Anthology Of Science Fiction Poetry – Volume 3, April 2022
- “1. Are There Any Long-term Effects of Ionospheric Heating?” and “8. Can HAARP Be Used To Generate VLF or ELF, that is Very Low Frequency or Extremely Low Frequency Signals?” Jet Fuel Review, Spring 2022 / Issue #23
- “Fierce fighting in substantial numbers: ships damaged,” in Cities and Memory: Shortwave Transmissions Project, January 2022 (direct link)
Poems that appear in Maps of a Hollowed World:
- “The Undertaker’s Vision of Burial as an Act of Luthiery,” Impossible Task, September 2020
- “Middle Generations: On Reading Keats, The Deputy Chief Medic Deletes a Love Letter from the Geologist, a Past Sweetheart,” Apricity Press, issue 5, May 2020
- “First Generation: The Deputy Chief Medic Refuses to Watch the Shuttle Launch Video,” “Middle Generation: The Archivist Received an Invitation to a Dinner Party aboard Ship at Which Vintage-Style Gelatin Dishes Are Served but Not Consumed,” and “Middle Generations: The Engineer Aboard the Generation Ship Compiles a List of Objects in Her Daughter’s Diorama of Houston,” The Cascadia Subduction Zone, Vol. 10 No. 1 — 2020
- “Last Generation: The Engineer Composes a Message Before Departing for the Planet,” “Last Generation: The Counselor Records an Increase in Instances of the Pathetic Fallacy as the Landing Party Prepares to Leave the Ship,” and “Last Generation: The Communications Officer Imagines the Debate Over Naming the Landing Site After Houston as a Final Session of Couples Therapy,” Unlikely Stories Mark V, March 2019
- “First Generation: The Undertaker Contemplates the Sanctified Ground on Which No One Can Stand,” “First Generation: The Mathematician Deletes a Message to His Daughter On Earth,” and “Middle Generations: The Generation Ship’s Counselor Annotates a Journal Article with Quotes from The Time Machine,” Slippage Lit, Issue Three, December 2019
- “First Generation: The Counselor Prepares Her Retirement Speech,” Liquid Imagination, Issue 42, August 2019.
- “First Generation: The Miner Writes Home to His Grandmother Regarding His Upcoming Wedding,” Abyss & Apex, Issue 71: 3rd Quarter 2019
Poems that appear in Small Waiting Objects:
- “The Artificial Intelligence of Grief,” On Spec, #109 Vol. 29 No 2, November 2018
- “Separation Anxiety,” Strange Horizons, 10 September 2018
- “Alima Among the Trees” and “Artist/Model,” Projector Magazine, Issue 1, April 2018
- “Aubade: Taking Off,” Kaleidotrope, Spring 2018
- “Moons of Mars,” Helios Quarterly, vol. 2, March 2018
- “New Moon,” The Future Fire, June 2017
- “Iris,” Strange Horizons, 10 April 2017
- “Aubade: Morning Aboard the Colony Ship,” “Notes Toward a Eulogy for Celis Margrave,” Web Conjunctions, 20 December 2016
- “Portrait of the Captain with Small Waiting Objects,” Recompose, #2: Ritualistic Pompadour, September 2016
- “Canals of Mars,” “In Which Miss Emily Bethel Wakes a Hundred Years Later in Every Possible Future,” “New Moon: Naming, Rites,” The Cascadia Subduction Zone, Vol. 6 No. 3, July 2016
- “The Tea Kettle Awaits the New Widow’s Return,” The Stonecoast Review, Issue 5, Summer 2016
- “Details,” Abyss & Apex, Issue 56: 4th Quarter 2015
- “When the First Ship Left,” Star*Line, Fall 2014
Older Poems:
- “Massacre”, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Fall/Winter 2003
- “Wanting,” “Cow, in the Pond”, Cold Mountain Review, Fall 2002
- “Lantana Clings,” Houston Poetry Fest 2002 Anthology
- “Chemistry, ” Potpourri, vol. 15, no. 3
- “Refutation,” “Want,” “Mother’s Garden, ” Poem, vol. 88
Fiction
- “Into Nothingness,” Luna Station Quarterly, June 2019
- “All the Songs the Little Birds Sing,” Luna Station Quarterly, December 2017
- “Over the New Horizon,” The Future Fire, December 2016
- “Bridge,” Every Day Fiction, 18 October 2016
- “Points of Reverie Aboard the Gen Ship“, Kaleidotrope, Summer 2016
Read my Q&As with speculative poets over at Interstellar Flight Magazine.
Conversations with Speculative Poets: my current monthly column at Luna Station Quarterly, beginning in April 2019
rwx: Read/Write/eXplicate: my monthly column at Luna Station Quarterly, which ran from 2014 to 2017.