Short stories and poems

detail, art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins for Glimmerglass
(Mercer, 9/2014)

A somewhat careless and incomplete list 
of my stories. "tinies," and poems, some 
with links to online publication,
some forthcoming...


SHORT STORIES

•  “A Child in Summer,” Story Quarterly 22 (1986)
•       Reprinted in This is How We Live, ed. Michael McFee (The University of North Carolina, 2000)
• “A Map of the Forest,” Blue Moon Café IV [anthology](San Francisco:  MacAdam/Cage, 2005)
• “An Incident at Agate Beach,” Argosy Quarterly, 3 (2005.) 
•        Reprint. Second printing in Northwest Passages:  A Cascadian Odyssey(Port Orchard, Washington: Windstorm Creative, 2005.)  
•        Reprint. Third printing in Year’s Best in Fantasy and Horror, (New York:  St. Martin’s Griffin, 2006.) Fourth printing in Weird Fiction Review, February 2013.
• “Compass of Dreams,” Louisiana Literature, 7:1 (1990)
• “Concealment Shoes,” Salon Fantastique, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2006.)  Locus Recommended Reading, 2006 
• “Drunk Bay,” Postscripts (UK), Issue 13, 2007
• “Matreshka,” Fantasy Magazine, (4) 2006
• “Nana,” Southern Humanities Review, 23:1 (1989)
• “Power and Magic,” Firebirds Soaring, ed. Sharyn (Firebird, 2009)
•        Reprint. Year's Best Fantasy 10, ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (Tor)
• “Prolegomenon to The Adventures of Childe Phoenix,”Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, no. 20 (2007.) 
•        Reprint.  Lightspeed, February 2013 (Online print version and podcast; art by Galen Dara.)
• “Rain Flower Pebbles,” Postscripts (UK), no. 17 Winter 2008
• “Static” in Extraordinary Engines: The Definitive Steampunk Anthology, ed. Nick Gevers (U.K./U.S.: Solaris Books, 2008) 
• “Tall Jorinda,” Capitol: The Magazine of New York’s Capitol Region 5: 7 (July 1989).  Capitol Magazine chose "Tall Jorinda" for its 1989 New Writer’s Award of a thousand dollars, publication, and a reading at The Shaker Museum, Old Chatham, New York.
•        Reprint.  Strange Horizons, 28 November 2005
• “The Angel with the Broken Face,” Mars Hill Review, 25 (2005)
• “The Balsam Spirit,” Southern Humanities Review 25:1 (1991)  Theodore Hoepfner prize for the year’s best story, Southern Humanities Review, 1991
• “The Boolu Lady,” Southern Humanities Review, 21:4 (1987) Theodore Hoepfner prize for the year’s best story, Southern Humanities Review, 1987
• “The Chinese Room,” We Think, Therefore We Are, ed. Pete Crowther (DAW Books, 2009)
• “The Comb,” Fantasy Magazine, no. 7 (2007.) 
•        Reprint.  Fantasy: The Best of the Year, ed. Rich Horton (Prime Books, 2008)
• “The Dawn Walker,” Fantasy Magazine, 3 (Summer 2006)
• “The Deaf Girl,” in The Raleigh News and Observer, March 5, 2000
• “The Flower Notebook” in Carolina Quarterly 48: 2  (1995)
• “The Fossil Bed,” The South Carolina Review 24:1 (1991)
• “The Gate House,” Argosy Quarterly, 4, forthcoming
• “The Geode” in Electric Velocipede 11 (2006)
• “The Girl in the Fabrilon,” SCIFICTION, Spring 2005, May 11
• "The Grave Reflection," Ghosts by Gaslight, ed. Nick Gevers and Jack Dann, (Harper, 2011)
•  "The Horse Angel," Edison's Frankenstein: Postscripts Anthology 20/21 (U.K.), 2009. Locus Recommended Reading, 2009
• “The Pilgrim Soul,” collaborative reading-and-art event with painter Makoto Fujimura at the Faith as a Way of Life conference at Yale Divinity School, May 2007
• "The Red King's Sleep," Postscripts Quarterly Anthology (U. K.), 2009
• “The Salt Garden,” Kansas Quarterly 21: 1-2 (1989)
• “The Salamander Fire,” The Beastly Bride, eds. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, (Viking, 2010)
• “The Seven Mirrors,” Breakout: A Postscripts Anthology, 34/35
• “The Smaragdine Knot,” Logorrhea:  Good Words Make Good Stories, ed. John Klima, (Bantam Books, 2007)
• “The Stone Baby,” The South Carolina Review 24: 1 (1991)        

TINIES

little fictions and fiction-like things

• "A Box of Time," in “Seven Crooked Tinies,” Fantasy Magazine (6) 2007 
• "Anders, Young and Old," The North American Anglican August 2020 
• "Anghenfil," The North American Anglican January 2021 
• "Cephalopodish," TerraNullius: Etemenanki (Italy), February 2016 ("Cephalopod Dreams," "Romance of the Sepia Amana)," "The Lady Vanishes," "The Toxic Party," "The Octopus in Captivity," "Spira mirabilis," "Cephalapodic Clerihew for Bishop Pontoppidan of Denmark, Along with a Most Regrettable General Defamation of the French Nation, of Which Fall, More Later,*"The Story of a Tentacle"
• "Iolanthe," The North American Anglican May 2020 
• "Me and Pablo Neruda," The North American Anglican September 2020 
• "Miss Lila," The North American Anglican 
• "Prospero's Island," The Revelator (2018) 
• "Spoiled," The North American Anglican 
• "The Child and the Night Gaunts," Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror (Portland, OR: Dark Regions Press, 2015) "The Child as a Gold Boat," "The Child and the Black Seed," "The Child Astronomer in the Dreamlands," "The Child and the Curse," "The Terror by Night," "The Child Dreams of His Death"
• "The Dew Sweeper," in “Seven Crooked Tinies,” Fantasy Magazine (6) 2007
• "The First Death," in “Seven Crooked Tinies,” Fantasy Magazine (6) 2007
• “The Four Directions” in Last Drink Bird Head, ed. Jeff Vandermeer, Ministry of Whimsy (2009) 
• "The Measure of Things" The North American Anglican January 2021
• "The Moss Herders" in “Seven Crooked Tinies,” Fantasy Magazine (6) 2007
• "The Mummy's Eyes," in “Seven Crooked Tinies,” Fantasy Magazine (6) 2007 
• "The Nature of My Angelic Counselor," The North American Anglican August 2020
• "The Seagrove Pot," in “Seven Crooked Tinies,” Fantasy Magazine (6) 2007
• "The Teeny Ghosts," The North American Anglican December 2020
• "The Wise Tooth," in  in “Seven Crooked Tinies,” Fantasy Magazine (6) 2007
• "Tree of Gold," The North American Anglican June 2020
• “Winter’s Bride,” in The Raleigh News and Observer, March 25, 2001

SELECTED POEMS

• “A Child at the Tropic Pavilions” in Mythic Passages
• "A Child in Snow and Sleep" in Pulsebeat
• "A Child in the Likeness of God" in Books and Culture
• "A Curious Incident" in Mezzo Cammin
• “A Dutch Burgher” in The Raintown Review
• “A Fire in Ice” in The Raintown Review; video by Paul Digby at Moving Poems
• "A May Flower” in qarrtsiluni
• "A Most Excellent Fancy" in Mezzo Cammin
• "A Rabbinic Tradition" in Trinity House Review
• “A Retreat” in South Carolina Review
• "A Rilkean Rubaiyat" in Trinacria
• "A Soul Considered as a Boat" in Mezzo Cammin
• “A Star in a Box” in At Length
• "A Tree for Ezekiel" in qarrtsiluni
• "A Winter’s Tale” in Pembroke Magazine
• “Abandon” in Rhino
• "About the Red Book" in Mezzo Cammin
• "About the Turn of the Leaf” in Pembroke Magazine
• “Adirondack Camp” in Cold Mountain Review
• “After Rain” in A Terse Set (Providence: Windfall Press anthology, 1976)
• “After Storm” in The Electric Velocipede
• "After the Black Chrysalis" in Mythic Circle (Mythopoeic Society)
• "After the Pandemonium" in Grand Little Things; reprint, Daily Kos
• "Alice" in North Carolina Literary Review. Finalist for the James Applewhite Poetry Prize of 2016, sponsored by The North Carolina Literary Review.
• "All Hallowed Angels Say" in Mezzo Cammin
• “Amara Sings of Alchemical Cycles" in Mezzo Cammin
• “Amaryllis Hippeastrum" in At Length
• "An Apple Tree Carol" in Ekstasis
• "An Icon of St. Margaret" in First Things
• "An Idle Fancy" in Grand Little Things
• André Trocmé" in The Liberal Media Made Me Do It, edited by Robbi Nester (Lummox Press, 2014)
• "Anniversary Song" at North Carolina Literary Review Online. Finalist for The James Applewhite Poetry Prize of 2016, sponsored by The North Carolina Literary Review. 
• "Annus Mirabilis" in Mezzo Cammin (featured poet July 2019)
• "Arrowhead” in Wordsmith
• “Asked of a Sibyl” in Apocalypse
• "Asterion" in Think Journal
• “At Cullowhee” in The HyperTexts
• “At the Glass Doors” in Crescent Review
• “At the Wall in the Borderlands" in Education and Culture 
• "At Prentiss Cottage” in The Raintown Review
• "Auguries by the Lunar Calendar" in Mezzo Cammin
• “Barbarians Among Us” in Apocalypse
• "'Because I Pass, I Pass'" in Angle
• “Becoming Landscape” in South Carolina Review
• “Birds and Lilies in Rugosa Canes” in Willows Wept   p. 44
• “Blue Sky, Blue Tree” in Pirene's Fountain
• “Blurbs of the Poets, no. 1” in Mezzo Cammin
• “Both Sides of the River" in Young Ravens Literary Review
• "Botticelli” in qarrtsiluni (with art by Laura Frankstone)
• "Bride with Magnolia Blossom" in Mezzo Cammin
• "Cáer’s Dream" in First Things
• Cassandra in the Fields of Gold" in Trinacria
• "Catharsis" in Blue Unicorn
• "Celan" in Books and Culture
• "Child with a Bird Shrine" in Grand Little Things
• "Childbed" in Intro 8, ed. George Garrett (Garden City, NY: Anchor/Doubleday
• "Childbirth, or The Forest of Death” in The Eclectic Muse “Children of Paradise” in ColdMountain Review;  reprint in ColdMountain Review 35^th Anniversary issue
• “Children of Mystery" in Books and Culture  
• “Children of Summer” in Blueline
• "Chrysopoeia Song of Amara the Alchemist" in Mezzo Cammin
• "Claire” in Carolina Quarterly
• "Clock of the Moon and Stars" in The Flea
• “Come to the Selvage of the Sea" in Willows Wept Review
• "Croft with Cows” in South Carolina Review
• “Cronesong” in The Orchards Poetry Journal
• "Cup" in Artemis
• "Damsels and Dragons" in At Length
• "Death of a Singer" in The Living Church (Anglican Communion)
• “Definition of Fool” in At Length
• "Directions for a Birthday Hat" in Mezzo Cammin
• “Dread" in Angle
• "Dream of a Waltz with God” in The Deronda Review
• "Dream of Light and Rain" in Forma
• "Dream of Wheels" in Mezzo Cammin
• "Dream Procession" in Mezzo Cammin (featured poet July 2019)
• "East of the Sun" in Pulsebeat
• "Eldest" in Mezzo Cammin
• “Ellen Cameron White” in The Laurel Review
• “Enchanted Story” in South Carolina Review
• "Epistle to F. Douglass" in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily
• "Epistle to H. Bahr" in Trinacria
• “Epistle to Robert Walser" in The Orchards Poetry Journal
• "Family Storybook: Peter Rabbit" in Mezzo Cammin
• "Fantasy in a Time of Chaos" in The Living Church (Anglican Communion)
• "Fool’s Sacrifice” in The Flea
• "Fool's Talismans" in Pirene's Fountain
• “Fool’s Toast to the Red King” in The Flea
• “Fort Hays, Kansas” in Canto
• "George Herbert" in Grand Little Things
• "Girl with Jar" in Antiphon
• "Glossary by Twilight" in Mezzo Cammin
• “God and the Mandrake Root" in Trinacaria.   Pushcart nomination.
• "Godric of Finchale as Thorn Tree" in The North American Anglican
• "Godspell, or December Triptych” in Mythic Passages
• "Great Work of Time" in Mezzo Cammin
• “Gulf” in Mythic Passages
• “Heard in the Dying Year” in Mythic Passages
• “Here We Go Round” in Mezzo Cammin
• “Her Girlhood” in Mezzo Cammin
• “History Report” in South Carolina Review
• “Homomonojot” in The Round Table Review (U.K.)
• “Hoop of Time" in Better Than Starbucks
• "Hortus Conclusus” in At Length
• "House at the Edge of Sleep" in Mezzo Cammin
• "Hunger and Cloud" in Ekstasis
• "Hunt of the Muse" in Lucid Rhythms
• "Hurdler, Age 12" in Mezzo Cammin
• “Hydrangeas" in The North American Anglican Septembeer 2019
• "Hyfrydol” in The Eclectic Muse
• "Icarus, Icarus, Paratrooper" in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily
• "Iconography of an Imaginary Medieval Painting" in Annunciation: Sixteen Contemporary Poets Consider Mary (Phoenicia Publishing, 2015)
• "I Heard Their Wings Like the Sound of Many Waters" in qarrtsiluni.  Pushcart nomination.
• “I Met My True Love Walking" in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily
• "In All Her Gleaming Youth, She Said” in Mezzo Cammin
• “In April” in Hanging Loose
• “In Extremis” in storySouth; video of "In Extremis" by Paul Digby at Moving Poems
• "In the Dream Behind My Eyes" in Trinacria
• "In the Outer Darkness of Middengeard" in Mezzo Cammin
• "In the Shadow of the Jasmine" in Mezzo Cammin
• “Inside the Village Limits” in Blueline
• "Interregnum" in Mezzo Cammin
• "Invisibles" in Mezzo Cammin
• “Jane Austen Strolls the Upper Rooms” in eVerse Radio
• “Jane Eyre in the Red Room" in Artemis
•         Reprint. "Jane Eyre in the Red Room" was republished in print and audio in Pete Candler’s The New Decameron series (2020.)
• "Jeux de Pages" in The Flea
• “Kateri Tekakwitha” in Carolina Quarterly
• "Kawa-akari" in Books and Culture
• "Kingfisher" in The Journal of Mythic Arts (Endicott Studio)
• “Lady in a Tower, 1870” in Carolina Quarterly
• "Lady Ise" in Books and Culture
• "Lament, c.117 B. C." in Able Muse
• "Landscape with Icefall" at Autumn Sky Poetry Daily
• “Lawn Colonized by Orb Spiders” in Blueline
• “Legends of the Virgin Martyrs" in Mezzo Cammin
• "Lethargy at Otter Lake” in The Little Magazine
• “Letter” in Hanging Loose
• “Letters from Elsewhere” in The Little Magazine
• "Little Epithalamium" in Mezzo Cammin
• “Living in a Dead Friend’s House” in Artemis
• "L-O-V-E" in Mezzo Cammin
• "Love for a Stranger" in Mezzo Cammin
• "Lumen Hour" in Angle
• "Marbles" in At Length
• “Melville at Mooring" in Mezzo Cammin
• "Memory of Youth” in The Electric Velocipede
• “Mending Nets” in Mythic Passage
• “Metamorphoses"  in  Grand Little Things
• "Midnight Between the Water and the Air" in The Orchards Poetry Journal (Summer 2021)
• Mirror Tree, Tree Mirror” in Mezzo Cammin
• “Missouri Stokes” in The Laurel Review
• “Murmurs of the Crones in Hackmatack” in The Orchards Poetry Journal
• “My Lover Sang to Me" in Mezzo Cammin
• "My Poor Fool is Hang’d” in Mezzo Cammin
• "Mystic Journey" in in Annunciation: Sixteen Contemporary Poets Consider Mary (Phoenicia Publishing, 2015)
• "Mystic Journey" reprinted in audio and print as part of Pete Candler’s online pandemic project, The New Decameron
• "Naked on the Sands" in Yew Journal
• “Nancy at the River" in Education and Culture 
•  "Narrative of a Buried Life” in Green Mountains Review
• “Near the End of the World” in Unsplendid
• "Night-Blooming Cereus" in North Carolina Literary Review.  Finalist for The James Applewhite Poetry Prize of 2016, sponsored by The North Carolina Literary Review.
•         Reprint. "Night-Blooming Cereus" was reprinted in print and audio in Pete Candler’s The New Decameron series (2020.)
• "Night Journey from Kingfisher" in The Journal of Mythic Arts
• “Nihongan Altar” in Books and Culture; reprint in The HyperTexts
• "Notes from Warrior Girl" in Angle
• "Old Women on the Churchyard Wall" in Better than Starbucks
• "Our Lady Justice" in The Transnational
• “Parable of Dust” in The Raintown Review
•  “Parque Forestal" in Angle (Ekphrastic supplement section)
• "Piano Rag” in South Carolina Review
• "Plague-spell" in The Living Church (Anglican Communion)
• "Portrait of Carolyn Wyeth with Leaves" in Mezzo Cammin
• "Portrait of the Magi as Three Horses" in Trinacria;  Pushcart nomination.
• "Praise for Dark Movements Toy Theatre" in The Journal of Mythic Arts
• “Pray You, Love, Remember” in The Brazen Head
• “Presage” in Black Warrior Review.
•        Reprint (as “Each Time”) in Nothing Rich, But Some Things Rare: Poetry in the South in The Black Warrior Review, 1974-1984 (The Gorgas Oak Press of the University of Alabama, 1984)
• "Prothalamion for Linnet" in The Journal of Mythic Arts (Endicott Studio)
• “Psyche Enthroned” in Mezzo Cammin
• “Psyche in Hell” in Mezzo Cammin
• “Puck in Spring” in Mezzo Cammin
• “Red Poppy Dream” in Victorian Violet
• "Reverie" in Grand  Little  Things
• "Rider Entering a Ruined City" in Mezzo Cammin
• “Riddles of the King” in At Length
• “Rite: Six for the Fears” in Blueline.
•        Reprint in River of Dreams: American Poems from the St. Lawrence Valley (Canton, NY: Glover, 1990)
•  “Rue for Housman” in Books and Culture
• "Rural Song" in Books and Culture
• “Saint in the Green" in Mezzo Cammin (featured poet, July 2019)
•  "Sakura," commissioned by Makoto Fujimura for The Curator
• "Sangréal" in Life and Legends
• "Scholastic Interlude” in Mezzo Cammin
• "Scout Ceremony" in Mezzo Cammin
• "Scrín-dream" in Ekstasis
• “Sea Change” in Davidson Miscellany
• “Sea of Traherne” in Books and Culture; reprint The HyperTexts
• “Seaside Pentina for a Chinese Painter" in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily; Best of the Web 2021 Nomination
• "Self-portrait as Dryad, no. 2” in Mezzo Cammin 
• “Self-portrait as Dryad, no. 4” in Mezzo Cammin
• “Self-portrait as Dryad, no. 5” in qarrtsiluni
• “Self-portrait as Dryad, no. 7” in qaartsiluni.
•        Reprint,  The 2010 Rhysling Anthology (SWFA)
• “Self-portrait as Dryad, no. 8” in At Length 
• "Self-portrait as Meadow" in Mezzo Cammin
• "Self-portrait as Ruth the Moabite" in Measure
• “Self-portrait at 2:00 a.m.” in Black Warrior Review
• "Seven Triolets for the King of Finisterre" in Mezzo Cammin ("Stellate" and "Far Away Long Ago")
• "She-Who-Changed" in North Carolina Literary Review. Finalist for The James Applewhite Poetry Prize of 2016, sponsored by The North Carolina Literary Review.
• "Ship of Trees" in Angle
• "Silk" in Grand Little Things
• "Sir Gawain to His Shield" in Mezzo Cammin
• "Sixteen Hundred Years" in Mezzo Cammin
• “Snow House Stories” in Carolina Quarterly
• “Snow White in Wildwood” in Mezzo Cammin
• "Solitaire" in Trinacria
• “Some Other Things I Hated About the 20^th Century” in Oyster Boy Review
• “Something Like a Memory" in Books and Culture;  
•      Reprint, “Something Like a Memory," Life and Legends
• "Song of the Fisher-Folk” in The Flea
• “Song of the Fisher-Folk, no. 2” in At Length
• "Sorrow-praise" in At Length
•  “Southern to the Bone” in storySouth 
• “Spell for Raine” in Mythic Passages
• "Spiegel im Spiegel" in North American Anglican
• "Spiegel im Spiegel, no. 2" in Mezzo Cammin
•  "Spirit-fall" at At Length
• “Spring in Fall" in Mezzo Cammin
• "Spring Tree Egg" in North Carolina Literary Review.   Finalist for The James Applewhite Poetry Prize of 2016, sponsored by The North Carolina Literary Review.
• "Starting with a Sentence by Aidan Hart," First Things
• "Stones in the Wilderness” in Mezzo Cammin
• “Summer's End" in Wlllows Wept
• "Syrinx Song” in Mezzo Cammin
• “Tears of a Boy, Age 6” in Books and Culture
• “Testament of the Paisley Loom-Workers” in South Carolina Review
• "Thaliad" IV excerpt in qarrtsiluni
• "Thaliad" I excerpt in Mezzo Cammin
• "That Which Snatches" in Mezzo Cammin

"THE" 

• "The Alchemist to the Fool" in Mezzo Cammin
• "The Ancestors, Again" in Pulsebeat Poetry Journal 
• “The Angel in the Tree" in The Brazen Head
• “The Angel with the Broken Face” in The HyperTexts
• "The Annunciation Appears in a Painting by Andrew Wyeth" in Annunciation: Sixteen Contemporary Poets Consider Mary (Phoenicia Publishing, 2015)
• "The Annunciation Carved in a Medieval Prayer-Nut" in Books and Culture Magazine
•  "The April Fool's Day Fool" in Mezzo Cammin
• “The Artist as Hephaestus” in Mythic Passages
• “The Artist of God” in Books and Culture
• “The Arabic Lesson” in Carolina Quarterly
• "The Aspen Wish" in The Orchards  June 2020
•  "The Auric Hour" in String Poet
•  "The Birthday Cap" in Mezzo Cammin
• "The Birthday Roses" in qarrtsiluni 
• “The Black Flower” in storySouth
• "The Black Fool" in At Length
• "The Bloodroot Fool" in Mezzo Cammin
• "The Bottle Tree" in Mezzo Cammin
• "The Buried Girl" in Mezzo Cammin
• "The Castle that is the World" (crown of sonnets) in Gramarye
• “The Changes" in Willows Wept Journal
• "The Cherry Trees” in Ploughshares
• “The Christmas Bonfire” in At Length
• "The Clock of the Moon and Stars" in The Flea.  Pushcart nomination.
• "The Curtal Candlelight at Tenebrae" in Ekstasis
• The Dawn Horse" in Artemis
• “The Desire for the Red King” in Mezzo Cammin
• “The Devil’s Curse Against Women” in Common Thread / Common Ground: A Collection of Essays on Early Samplers and Historical Needlework, ed. Marsha Van Valin (Sullivan, Wisconsin: The Scarlet Letter, 2001)
• "The Dream of the King's Clothes" in Mezzo Cammin
• "The Dream of the Rood" (translation) in qarrtsiluni
•  "The Dreamer as Architect" in First Things
•  "The Ebbing" in The North American Anglican January 2020
• "The Elder Race" in Mezzo Cammin
• “The Exile’s Track” in storySouth; video by Paul Digby at Moving Poems
• “The Fall” in Mythic Passages
• “The Fire Girl” in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
• "The Folded Tree" in At Length
• “The Foliate Head” in Mezzo Cammin
• "The Fool and His Birthday Hat" in Yew Journal
• "The Fool and the Five Senses" in Mezzo Cammin
• "The Fool and the Owl" in Mezzo Cammin
• "The Fool and the Sublime" in Mezzo Cammin
• "The Fool as Gilgamesh" in The Shit Creek Review
• "The Fool Glimpses the City" in Angle
• "The Fool Has a Vision" in Shirl Sazynski's Persephone's Kiss tba
• "The Fool is Sealed in Dark" in Pirene's Fountain
• "The Fool Tells Children a Story" in Mezzo Cammin
• “The Fool’s Confession” in Mezzo Cammin
• "The Fool's Talismans" in Pirene's Fountain
• "The Fool, the King, and the Fox-fall" in Lucid Rhythms
• "The Forest Fool" in At Length
• "The Fugitive Light" in qarrtsiluni
• "The Garden at 4 a.m." in Mezzo Cammin
• “The Good-bye” in Mezzo Cammin
• “The Ghost Crab’s Woman” in The Electric Velocipede
• “The Grail” in Mezzo Cammin
• "The Great Frost" in The Flea
• "The Green-up" in Mezzo Cammin (featured poet July 2019)
• "The Greenwood Mound" in Lucid Rhythms
• “The Gulls” in The Electric Velocipede
• "The Hand" in Artemis
• "The Hand" republished in print /audio in Pete Candler's A New Decameron
• "The Horse Angel" in Cunning Folk
•  "The Jealous Monk" in Mezzo Cammin (featured poet July 2019)
•  "The King and the Fool" in Mezzo Cammin
• “The King in the Cloud of Unknowing” in At Length
• "The Kirkyard Deer” in The Eclectic Muse
• "The Last Seven Days" commissioned by Carey Wallace for Lament for the Dead internet project, July 4, 2015
• “The Library Pictures” in Mythic Passages
• “The Little Place" in The North American Anglican 
• "The Locomotive Song” in The Laurel Review
• “The Lonely Ones” in Southern Poetry Review
• “The Magnolia Girl” in Books and Culture
• “The Maiden-saint of France” in Mezzo Cammin
• "The Marriage-Bed” in Mezzo Cammin
• "The Master of the Embroidered Foliage" in The Living Church
• "The Memoir Artists" in The Flea
• "The Merchant and the Stylite" in Mezzo Cammin
• “The Mermaid Tavern” in The Flea
• "The Midden Cross" in Trinacria
• "The Mineral Night" in Books and Culture
• "The Moon of Precious Wentletrap" in Mezzo Cammin
• “The Moon on the Strand” in The Electric Velocipede
• “The Mystic Page" in The Orchards Poetry Journal
•  "The Nesting Doll” in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
• "The Night Chamber" in Trinacria
•  "The Nuba Christians" in Trinacria. Pushcart nomination.
• "The Old Quarrel" in Trinity House Review
• "The Painter at Midnight, Lake Street" in Artemis
•      Reprint,The Painter at Midnight, Lake Street: reprinted in the pamphlet,  Poems in the Waiting Room (Roanoke, Virginia: Carilion Clinic, 2019), vol. 5: 3.
• "The Paschal Moon" in Grand Little Things
• “The Peacock’s Tail” in Mezzo Cammin
• "The Plum Oak Pot" appeared in print and audio in Pete Candler’s The New Decameron series (2020.)
• "The Poet and the Golem" in Books and Culture
• “The Prince of Egypt and the Sphinx" in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily
• "The Rain Doves at Birkenau" in Life and Legends
• "The Red Fool" in Lucid Rhythms
• "The Red King and the Stars” in At Length
• “The Red King’s Blossom-Tide” in Mezzo Cammin
• "The Red King's Sword" in The Flea
• "The Red King's Word" in Mezzo Cammin
• “The Red King to the Stricken Man" in Mezzo Cammin 
• “The Riddle" in Cunning Folk
• The Rose of Laughter, Laughter of the Rose” in Mezzo Cammin
• “The Ruined Garden"  in Willows Wept Review
• The Saint in the Scriptorium" in Think Journal
• "The Sea of Traherne" in Books and Culture
• "The Secret from the Ground" in The North American Anglican 
• The Seven Last Days: Lament for the Dead online project.  Commissioned by writer Carey Wallace to memorialize a death on 4 July 2015.  A temporary online poetry project that marked “the death of every person killed by police this summer, and every police officer who loses life in the line of duty.”
• "The Sheaf of Wheat" in Mezzo Cammin
• "The Silver Cord" in Lucid Rhythms
• "The Sky Door” in The Electric Velocipede
• “The Starflower” in Mythic Passages; audio version, Woodrat Podcasts
• "The Starry Fool" in Mezzo Cammin; audio, Dave Bonta's Woodrat Podcasts
• "The Statue in the Crypt" in Mezzo Cammin (featured poet July 2019)
• "The Stone Court" in Mezzo Cammin
• "The Summoning" in The Brazen Head
• "The Red King's Sword" in The Flea 
• "The Rose of Laughter, Laughter of the Rose" in Mezzo Cammin
• “The Substance" in Angle
• "The Tarot Witch” in At Length
• "The Tear Drinkers" in Think Journal
• "The Third, the Youngest Son iin Fairy Tales" in North American Anglican
• "The Thursday of Mysteries" at Mezzo Cammin
• "The Tinners' Rabbits" in Ekstasis
• The Turning of the Wheel" in Artemis Journal
• "The Turret Stairs" in Mezzo Cammin
• "The Two Tables" in Mezzo Cammin
• "The Unsent Letter" in Pulsebeat
• "The Village in April" in Mezzo Cammin (featured poet July 2019) 
• "The Village Whispers" in Mezzo Cammin
• "The Watering Place" in Mezz0 Cammin
• "The Weaver and the Loom" in FORMA, forthcoming
• "The Wentletrap Mystery" in Yew Journal
• "The White Fool" in At Length
• "The White Ibis in The Brazen Head
• "The White Orchard" in The Revelator
•  "The Wish for Common Sleep" in The North American Anglican
• "The Wish for Queen Alice" in Light
• "The Wish for Roses" in Hindsight
• "The Witch of the Black Forest" at Clive's Artlog
• "The Woman in the Walls" in North Carolina Literary Review (online), James Applewhite Poetry Prize finalist, 2019
•  "The Wrexham Coverlet" in Education and Culture
•  "The Yellow Day" in Lucid Rhythms
•  "The Yellow Fool" in Lucid Rhythms
•  "The Yoke" in Pirene's Fountain
• “The Young Wife's Reply" in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily
•        Reprint "The Young Wife's Reply" anthologized in The Plague Papers, ed. Robbi Nester and hosted at Poemeleon. Pushcart nomination.

• "Their Faces" in Pulsebeat Poetry Journal
• "Threshold" in Grand Little Things
• "Tithonus” in Mythic Passages
• "To Make Much of Time" in Angle
• "To the Flowers" in The Brazen Head
• "Torch" in Books and Culture
• "Tree Girl" in Mezzo Cammin
• “Two Incidents of Curiosity” in Mezzo Cammin
• “Upon the First Bathtub in Collins, Georgia” in Canto
• "Vermont Kingdom" in Books and Culture
• "Warning of Amara the Alchemist" in Mezzo Cammin
• "Water Burial of the Fool" in Pirene's Fountain
• "Waterborne": 2013 Eratosphere sonnet bake-off finalist, Judge's Choice (Gail White); "Waterborne" in Able Muse; 
•          Reprint, "Waterborne" in the anthology Irresistible Sonnets, ed. Mary Meriam (Headmistress Press, 2014)
• "What Consoles the Fool" in Mezzo Cammin
• "What is Past at Ninety-One" in North American Review
• "What Matters to the Fool" in Yew Journal
• "What the Fool Whispered to the Wentletrap" in The Flea
• “When Demons Ruled,” in The Electric Velocipede
• “Why the People Disliked Art, Circa 2005” in The Electric Velocipede
•  "Wielding the Tree Finder" in qarrtsiluni
• "Wild to Make" in American Arts Quarterly
• "Woman, Tree, Rain" in The North American Anglican, April 2021
• "Words Near the Sea of Flowers" in Trinacria
• “Yeats Wishes to Be Magus" in Mezzo Cammin
• "Youth in the Borderlands" in Trinity House Review
• "Zephyr” in Mezzo Cammin   
• "Zodiac" in Mezzo Cammin  

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