Poetry

Portfolio of Published Work

Below, find all of my most recently-published writing pieces. This is mostly a portfolio of my journalism, with the occasional nod to work from my other service categories.

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The encounter.

Serendipidous Meeting

His dented brow in the black-orange light turned me inward. He explained a fall down an apartment staircase, a scarf that staunched the bleeding, a

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Old book

Begin Again

(This is a contrapuntal poem, so read rows from left to right then columns.) Before you                   work                           we cook      

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Construction site hazard warning light

Detour

You can go your own way, but when I go absent-mindedly against that pesky one-way at the end of N. State Street, coffee cravings fall

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Helsinki, Finland. Marine Boat, Powerboat In Evening Illuminatio

Marine Park

Through the windshield the stars are huge, distorted asterisks, while my hands trace the steering wheel, and my mouth cinches tight. Tears mark my thighs

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Exactly

Exactly

My body is this opaque casing for a spirit achingly transparent, If it weren’t for my rib cage it would slip down my forearm, out

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Woman jumping with joy in a sunlit forest.

Joy

He hiccups a laugh like a schoolchild on the monkey bars when his eyes find a wingspan as far-reaching as his smile. He can’t help

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Wart-biter or Decticus verrucivorus on grass

The Biter

I remember Meghan was a biter. I’d come home from an afternoon of playing at her house with indentations, like little bridges all over my

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Feel

keeps me alight

We lie face to face, the contours of our bodies inked in counterpoint. Each of us one curve of a candle’s flame, holding close, between

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UW Bothell: Swipe for Whales

In this blog post for University of Washington Bothell, I wrote about a new online game to track whales with citizen science.