This next installment of Behind the Poems, “Weeknights With Walter,” was originally published in Resurrection Magazine – La Ley Del Karma, an online publication that I can’t find a working link to anymore. It’s the evening ritual with mom. Every night at 5:30, after she came homefrom a long day at work and I hadContinueContinue reading “Behind the Poems: Weeknights With Walter”
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Behind the Poems: Hollywood Living
Originally published in the Avatar Review, Issue 21 (an online publication that is now defunct), this next installment of Behind the Poems is a love letter to my hometown. It doesn’t matter where I go in SoFlo. Palm trees always follow.Lush green to decaying brown starburst fronds exploding from atrunk of taupe rings so skinnyContinueContinue reading “Behind the Poems: Hollywood Living”
Behind the Poems: ex
Originally published in the Avatar Review, Issue 21, this next installment of Behind the Poems is an ode to writer’s block. Cross it all off and don’t look back. Like a long languid breath, to draw that X over words that no longer work because you no longer work the same way. X marks theContinueContinue reading “Behind the Poems: ex”
Behind the Poems: Battle of the Billboards
My next installment of Behind the Poems was first featured in the Avatar Review, Issue 21. I was inspired to write this one on a road trip I took driving up to Orlando with my best friend. The poem below is the result. On the drive up to Orlando through the 95, we saw billboardContinueContinue reading “Behind the Poems: Battle of the Billboards”
Travel Poetry: Keystone Gate
Writing travel poetry whenever I go somewhere new helps keep those memories fresh in my mind, whether I visited just a year ago or five years past. For this edition of travel poetry, I’m sharing my piece about the Agamemenon Keystone Gate in Mycanae, Greece from my trip in 2019. Travel Poetry for Mycanae, GreeceContinueContinue reading “Travel Poetry: Keystone Gate”
Carry On Wayward Sons
Originally published on my old writer’s blog here, made for a chapbook for my friend’s birthday. It starts as far back as Michael and Lucifer, two brothers whose love drove to the destruction of Heaven and earth. One loved his Father, and the other adored his brother. This growing separation led to a road ofContinueContinue reading “Carry On Wayward Sons”