Dragon Poet Review, 2018, Three Poems
“Dawn”
“To A Mimbres Woman”
“Desert Mountain”
https://dragonpoetreview.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/2018-winter-spring-issue-dragon-poet-review.pdf
To a Mimbres Woman
I see your thousand-year-old thumb print
On the plain brown potsherd.
My own thumb fits perfectly
In the curve you left.
Other more elegant pottery bits
Lie among rocks and junipers
On this hill of dry grasses.
Red-on-white interwoven geometry,
A tasseled quail,
Designs fine as any
In the art galleries of the town.
But it is this plain brown piece that draws me.
My thumb seeks the curved place, again.
I see you forming the pot
From coils of clay,
You look out over fields of corn and beans
In the valley below.
Then, as now, a red-tailed hawk dips,
A horned lizard scurries under a stone
That forms the village wall.
Beyond the fields
Green cottonwoods mark the river
Between jagged hills.
The wind shakes their leaves like a gourd rattle.
In the quiet between gusts,
The river rushes below, monsoon-strong.
It is in these wild places,
Where our thumbs
Feel the curve of another’s hand,
Places free from cement, neon, asphalt, smog,
And deadened water,
Across years,
Across cultures and countries,
Beyond all reason,
We find each other.
Wilderness House Literary Review no. 10.4, 2015, Three Poems
“Bluestorm”
“Birthday Wishes”
“Autumn Afternoon”
Bluestorm reprinted in Writing in a Woman’s Voice Blogspot. Moon Prize, 2018.
Marty reads “Bluestorm“
Wilderness House Literary Review no. 15.2, 2020, Three Poems
“Early Morning in a Thirty-Year Marriage”
“Way Station”
“Friendship Park”
Twisted Vine Literary and Arts Journal, 2018
Story: “The Feast”
https://twistedvine.wnmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/97/2018/05/TV-Spring-2018-Edition-7th-draft.pdf
Silver City Quarterly Review, 2015
Poem: “On the Hill”
San Diego Writers INK Anthology 2017
First Chapter, Holding the Line: An American Family in Saigon
The Guilded Pen Anthology, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019
“Winner of the Purple Heart”
“Recipe for Calm”
“Glass Half Full of Rain”
“To A Sunflower”
“California February”
“Missing You in the Morning”
