“Look, it’s not that I believe in him. Nor he / in me.” – God (32 Poems)

“This is how we knew she had already died at least once.” – The Dead Woman (Guernica)

“I am both verb and ocean…” – The Taxidermist & The Cloud  (Copper Nickel)

“If we had built / our buildings / as ruins, / it would have saved us / so much time” – Inside the Trojan Horse (Copper Nickel) 

“I could almost see the bored centurions / craving a drink.” – I Had a Little Trouble Believing in God  (Image)

“…which means that, allotting time for grieving, / our lives consist of maybe five dogs” – Dog Years (The Adroit Journal)

“Let’s remember that in Finland / they have a word that means / drinking at home, alone, / in your underwear.” – Kalsarikänni (POETRY)

“The smile of a boy flitted across his face…” – The Date (Blackbird)

“I’d rather not mention the resemblance to prostitution…” – Oil and Ash  (Guernica)

“I went to the doctor and found out / there is an empty city inside me.” – The Empty City (Guernica)

“Boys were hunched in the bluish shadows, worrying a scorpion with a stick.” – The Epidemic (Thrush Poetry)

“The smell of frying food hangs in the air for hours…” – Report From Beyond (The Literary Review)

“The sound a bluejay makes, if it were a color, would not be blue.“ – Nine Possible Observations to Consider (Booth)