"Cabinet Jesus"
Evening Street Review, Number 31, Autumn 2021, pp. 91-100.
 Last night I talked my parents into going to the late-morning Mass. "Is that what
they teach you in college?" my father asked. "To sleep late?" . . .

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"The Bracelet"
Touchstone Literary Magazine,
Spring 2021
  Loretta's mother's gold charm bracelet hung on a stranger's wrist...

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"The Ferry"
La Piccioletta Barca, Issue 22
Wrapped in a milk-thick fog, the ferry seemed to exist alone in the universe...

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"Cat in the Road, 1978"
Sangam Literary Magazine, Fall 2020
The two girls sat on the curb in front of Annemarie’s house with their white-toed sneakers flat on the asphalt and their denim knees up against their chests...

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"The Verrazano Bridge Has a Way of Looming"
The Maine Review, July 2020
The Verrazano Bridge comes at me in waves from the back seat of my parents' car...

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In print only:
“No Respecter of Lines.” The Halcyone, vol. 3, no. 2, Summer 2020, pp. 17-20.

drops from her umbrella (tanka poetry)
Inkling Press, Edmonton, Canada, 2006
Halloween
Infant Batman
in my arms
barely aware of this world
that needs saving

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