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STORIES and POEMS 
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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 in Northwest Passages:  A Cascadian Odyssey(Port Orchard, Washington: Windstorm Creative, 2005)
• Reprint in Year’s Best in Fantasy and Horror, (New York:  St. Martin’s Griffin, 2006)
• “Compass of Dreams,” Louisiana Literature, 7:1 (1990)
• “Concealment Shoes,” Salon Fantastique, edited by Ellen Datlow & 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 & Magic,” forthcoming in the third Firebirds anthology, Firebirds Soaring, ed. Sharyn November, 2009
• Reprint, Year's Best Fantasy 10, ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (forthcoming)
• “Prolegomenon to The Adventures of Childe Phoenix,”Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, no. 20 (2007)
• “Rain Flower Pebbles,” Postscripts (UK), no. 17 Winter 2008
• “Seven Crooked Tinies,” Fantasy Magazine (6) 2007
• “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 in 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 & Observer, March 5, 2000
• “The Flower Notebook” in Carolina Quarterly 48: 2  (1995)
• “The Four Directions” in Last Drink Bird Head, ed. Jeff Vandermeer, Ministry of Whimsy (2009) 
• “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, forthcoming
•  "The Horse Angel," Edison's Frankenstein: Postscripts Anthology 20/21 (U.K.), 2009; Locus Recommended Reading, 2009
• “The Pilgrim Soul,” collaborative event with painter Makoto Fujimura 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. E. Datlow & T. Windling, forthcoming, (Viking, 2010)
• “The Seven Mirrors,” forthcoming in an anthology of novellas from Prime Books
• “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)        
• “Winter’s Bride,” in The Raleigh News & Observer,March 25, 2001

POEMS

• “A Child at the Tropic Pavilions” in Mythic Passages
• “A Dutch Burgher” in The Raintown Review
• “A Fire in Ice” in The Raintown Review
• “A May Flower” in qarrtsiluni
• “A Retreat” in South Carolina Review
• “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)
• “Asked of a Sibyl” in Apocalypse
• “After Storm” in The Electric Velocipede
• “All Hallowed Angels Say” in Mezzo Cammin
• “Arrowhead” in Wordsmith
• “At Cullowhee” in The HyperTexts
• “At the Glass Doors” in Crescent Review
• “At Prentiss Cottage” in The Raintown Review
• “Barbarians Among Us” in Apocalypse
• "'Because I Pass, I Pass While Dreams Remain'" in Angle
• “Becoming Landscape” in South Carolina Review
• “Blue Sky, Blue Tree” in Pirene's Fountain
• “Blurbs of the Poets, no. 1” in Mezzo Cammin
• “Botticelli” in qarrtsiluni
• "Celan" in Books and Culture
• "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 Summer” in Blueline
• “Claire” in Carolina Quarterly
• "Clock of the Moon and Stars" in The Flea
• “Croft with Cows” in South Carolina Review
• “Definition of Fool” in At Length
• "Directions for a Birthday Hat" in Mezzo Cammin
• “Dream of a Waltz with God” in The Deronda Review
• “Ellen Cameron White” in The Laurel Review
• “Enchanted Story” in South Carolina Review
• “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
• “Godspell, or December Triptych” in Mythic Passages
• “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.)
• “Hortus Conclusus” in At Length
• "Hunt of the Muse" in Lucid Rhythms
• "Hurdler, Age 12" in Mezzo Cammin
• “Hyfrydol” in The Eclectic Muse
• "I Heard Their Wings Like the Sound of Many Waters" in qarrtsiluni
• “In All Her Gleaming Youth, She Said” in Mezzo Cammin
• “In April” in Hanging Loose
• “In Extremis” in storySouth
• "In the Shadow of the Jasmine" in Mezzo Cammin
• “Inside the Village Limits” in Blueline
• "Interregnum" in Mezzo Cammin
• "Jeux de Pages" in The Flea
• “Kateri Tekakwitha” in Carolina Quarterly
• “Lady in a Tower, 1870” in Carolina Quarterly
• “Lawn Colonized by Orb Spiders” in Blueline
• “Lethargy at Otter Lake” in The Little Magazine
• “Letter” in Hanging Loose
• “Letters from Elsewhere” in The Little Magazine
• “Living in a Dead Friend’s House” in Artemis
• "Lumen Hour" in Angle
• “Memory of Youth” in The Electric Velocipede
• “Mending Nets” in Mythic Passage
• “Mirror Tree, Tree Mirror” in Mezzo Cammin
• “Missouri Stokes” in The Laurel Review
• “My Poor Fool is Hang’d” in Mezzo Cammin
• “Narrative of a Buried Life” in Green Mountains Review
• “Near the End of the World” in Unsplendid
• “Nihongan Altar” in Books and Culture; reprint in The HyperTexts
• “Parable of Dust” in The Raintown Review
•  “Piano Rag” in South Carolina Review
• “Presage” in Black Warrior Review; reprint (“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)
• “Psyche Enthroned” in Mezzo Cammin
• “Psyche in Hell” in Mezzo Cammin
• “Puck in Spring” in Mezzo Cammin
• “Red Poppy Dream” in Victorian Violet
• “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
• “Scholastic Interlude” in Mezzo Cammin
• "Scout Ceremony" in Mezzo Cammin
• “Sea Change” in Davidson Miscellany
• “Sea of Traherne” in Books and Culture; reprint The HyperTexts
• “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; reprinted in The 2010 Rhysling Anthology (SWFA)
• “Self-portrait as Dryad, no. 8” in At Length
• "Self-portrait as Meadow" in Mezzo Cammin
• “Self-portrait at 2:00 a.m.” in Black Warrior Review
• "Ship of Trees" in Angle
• “Snow House Stories” in Carolina Quarterly
• “Snow White in Wildwood” in Mezzo Cammin
• “Some Other Things I Hated About the 20^th Century” in Oyster Boy Review
• “Song of the Fisher-Folk” in The Flea
• “Song of the Fisher-Folk, no. 2” in At Length
•  “Southern to the Bone” in storySouth 
• “Spell for Raine” in Mythic Passages
• “Stones in the Wilderness” in Mezzo Cammin
• “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 Artist as Hephaestus” in Mythic Passages
• “The Artist of God” in Books and Culture
• "The Auric Hour" in String Poet
•  "The Birthday Roses" in qarrtsiluni
• "The Bottle Tree" in Mezzo Cammin
• “The Christmas Bonfire” in At Length
• “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 Rood" (translation) in qarrtsiluni
• “The Foliate Head” in Mezzo Cammin
• "The Fool and His Birthday Hat" in Yew Journal
• "The Fool and the Owl" in Mezzo Cammin
• "The Fool as Gilgamesh" in The Shit Creek Review
• “The Fool’s Confession” in Mezzo Cammin
• “The Good-bye” in Mezzo Cammin
• “The Ghost Crab’s Woman” in The Electric Velocipede
• "The Great Frost" in The Flea
• “The Gulls” in The Electric Velocipede
• “The Angel with the Broken Face” in The HyperTexts
• “The Arabic Lesson” in Carolina Quarterly
• "The Birthday Cap" in Mezzo Cammin
• “The Birthday Roses” in qarrtsiluni
• “The Black Flower” in storySouth
• “The Black Fool” in At Length
• “The White Fool” in At Length
• “The Cherry Trees” in Ploughshares
• "The Desire for the Red King" in Mezzo Cammin
• “The Exile’s Track” in storySouth
• “The Fall” in Mythic Passages
• “The Fire Girl” in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
• "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 Tells Children a Story” in Mezzo Cammin
• “The Forest Fool” in At Length
• "The Fugitive Light" in qarrtsiluni
• “The Grail” in Mezzo Cammin
• "The Greenwood Mound" in Lucid Rhythms
• "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 Library Pictures” in Mythic Passages
• “The Locomotive Song” in The Laurel Review
• “The Lonely Ones” in Southern Poetry Review
• “The Magnolia Girl” in Books & Culture
• “The Marriage-Bed” in Mezzo Cammin
• "The Memoir Artists" in The Flea
• “The Mermaid Tavern” in The Flea
• "The Moon of Precious Wentletrap" in Mezzo Cammin
• “The Moon on the Strand” in The Electric Velocipede
• “The Nesting Doll” in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
• “The Peacock’s Tail” in Mezzo Cammin
• “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 Rose of Laughter, Laughter of the Rose” in Mezzo Cammin
• "The Sky Door” in The Electric Velocipede
• "The Silver Cord" in Lucid Rhythms
• “The Starflower” in Mythic Passages
• "The Starry Fool" in Mezzo Cammin
• "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 Turret Stairs" in Mezzo Cammin
• "The Two Tables" in Mezzo Cammin
• "The Wentletrap Mystery" in Yew Journal
• "The Yellow Day" in Lucid Rhythms
• "The Yoke" in Pirene's Fountain
• “Tithonus” in Mythic Passages
• "To Make Much of Time" in Angle
• “Two Incidents of Curiosity” in Mezzo Cammin
• “Upon the First Bathtub in Collins, Georgia” in Canto
• "What Matters to the Fool" in Yew Journal
• "What the Fool Whispered to the Wentletrap" in Mezzo Cammin
• “When Demons Ruled,” in The Electric Velocipede
• “Why the People Disliked Art, Circa 2005” in The Electric Velocipede
•  "Wielding the Tree Finder" in qarrtsiluni
• “Zephyr” in Mezzo Cammin