–– Publisher Red Focks, Alien Buddha Press, 2023

to and from childhood to adulthood, through fairy tale references, create

a unique overall statement on goodness, within a set of strong poems born

of skilled technique and imagistic language.

–– Heidi Nightengale, from the foreword,

Publisher: IMPSPIRED PRESS (UK), 2024

Everybody is hungry for something––for fame, for money, for love, or blood. It’s that simple ––Joe Stone

In 1961, during the rainiest winter in four decades, Private Investigator Joe Stone had an easy-going business in the heart of Hollywood until a disoriented man walked into his office. From that day on, Joe Stone’s life was never the same, and while the rainwater kept piling up, the bodies did too.

Novel 1uses action, reaction and emotions to tell the story through smart dialog and believable characters. Most of whom are tied together by the story’s end. The reader will also experience a different version of Los Angeles. Instead of hot, dusty and dry, L.A. is cold, dark and wet.

Novel 1 is a Crime Noir that delivers strong voicing and tone. The novel’s prose is colorful and graphic, creating moody cinematic-like imagery for this fast-paced suspenseful story, which ends in a surprising double twisted finale.

NOTE: Novel 1 is currently in the hands of potential publishers and potential literary agents.

Publishers: Dustin Pickering and Zack Wise

Released: June 2022

The fragmented structuring in this collection is a stylized presentation that supports the theme of Broken in various forms. Experimenting with split words and incorrect punctuation, along with the abstraction of certain words, DAH gives his readers a visually artistic experience while he engages in modernistic voicing. These fragmented thoughts, with their improper punctuation, can be discomforting at times, which raises feelings of apprehension. Broken , poems calls for its readers to confront any darkness in their thoughts: “in the land of fear \ or thoughts”, and to question anything that claims to be the truth: “no one knows \ what watches from behind the sky”.    

from the Foreword by Denali Huff

Here’s the Link:

–––excerpt from the story.

first published in Alien Buddha Magazine

Publisher: Red Focks

It was raining so hard that Noah’s whiskey tasted like downspout water. Dressed in her Saturday night fuck me first, love me later slinky black dress, Nina was watching Noah from the window. He was standing in the parking lot outside of The Soviet Union bar, under an umbrella. The red neon lights were blaring like an angry army. Noah had been waiting nearly an hour for God to come with the weed. As usual, he didn’t show up––God is the local weed dealer. Nina motioned from the window, making the telephone-sign with her hand, for him to come in and call God, again. Noah threw back his whiskey and went inside.

    Nina said, “Typical repulsive God to not show up. And you standing out there like some moronic believer. You screwed up by giving him the cash first.” She was irritated and pacing.                                       

    Noah dialed God’s number and got his message service: Hi, this is God. What I can create for you?

   “Where in the fuck are you?” Noah grumbled into the phone, and then hung up.

  first published in Drinkers Only magazine.

John Patrick Robbins, publisher.

• “Some god” (Harbinger Asylum Magazine) from “The Translator”

• “Origin #2” (CTU Publishing Group) from “The Opening”

• “The Silence Of A Kiss” (Harbinger Asylum Magazine) from “Something Else’s Thoughts”

• “Wind-Stuffed Shells (KNOT Literary Magazine) from “Looking Through The Peephole”

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Best Of The Net Nominations

• “Birds” (Ethos Magazine) from “inheritance”

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Pulitzer Nomination

The Translator (Transcendent Zero Press)

––nominated by publisher Dustin Pickering

Her preference was for tall, handsome men. Even more, she preferred men who looked like models, and the darker their complexion and hair, the more she was drawn to them. The more chiseled and rugged-looking their faces, the more she wanted them. She loved making heavy eye contact with strangers: they would be with wives or girlfriends and she would get their attention, draw them in, and they’d slip her their phone number. Rain was a woman with no scruples, and her promiscuity was famous. What she wanted, she went for, and got it. Her moral compass was dirty, but her body was succulent––and she loved to share it as often as possible. She also had a thing for seducing the boyfriends and husbands of her friends, too. Rain could have cared less for the girl-best-friend thing, because it was men that she wanted, hot and handsome men. All of that came to a bizarre ending when Dax Leak entered her life …

–––first published in Erotic Review (UK)

Editor: Jamie Mclean

1. Embrace (Words and Images In Flight)

2. The Sound Of Bones (Miracle Magazine)

3. Anything Shakespeare Has Penned (Eunoia Review, Singapore)

4. Seeking Entrance (Eunoia Review, Singapore)

5. Morning’s Mirror (Eunoia Review, Singapore)

6. Scenes From Cedar Park (The Muse, India)

7. Banjo Birds and Circles (River & South Review)

8. Naked Cry (Poetry Pacific)

9. Some god (Deep Tissue Magazine)

10. Captivity (Deep Tissue Magazine)

11. Kleptomaniac (Deep Tissue Magazine)

12. Fallen Sea Star (Deep Tissue Magazine)

13. We Are Only Sleeping (Deep Tissue Magazine)

14. A Dream Held In A Mouth (Rose Red Review)

15. Solo Flight (Jellyfish Whispers)

16. Enchanted (Jellyfish Whispers)

17. Going Coastal (The Cape Rock)

18. Spring, A Birthing Womb (Metaphor Magazine)

19 In The Body Of A Daydream (Metaphor Magazine)

20. Queen (Dead Snakes Journal)

21. Sardines Mesh and Scars (Dead Snakes Journal)

22. Lead and Salt (Dead Snakes Journal)

23. Nocturne In d-flat minor (Lost Coast Review)

24. Eulogy For Roses (Lost Coast Review)

25. Sweeping Heaven (Lost Coast Review)

26. Time Is Nothing When It’s Dark (Digital Papercut)

27. The Bird Flew Off (Digital Papercut)

28. Teachers (Digital Papercut)

29. Napa (Digital Papercut)

30. City Portrait (Digital Papercut)

31. Never The Breeze (Diverse Voices Quarterly)

32. Circle (Empty Sink Publishing)

33. Sun (Poetry Super Highway)

34. The Rain, After (Napalm and Novocain)

35. A Blue Tear, Frozen (Napalm and Novocain)

36. Translator (KNOT Magazine)

37. Appearance (The Open Mouse, U.K.)

38. Invisible (Acumen, U.K.)

39. Corrosion (Poetry Pacific, Canada)

40. Nocturne (The Filid Anthology)

41. Rattle (Orion Headless)

42. Dust (Diverse Voices Quarterly)

43. Full Life In The Day Of A Poet (Miracle Magazine)

44. Gardener (Stone Voices Magazine Spring 2014)

45. Harbor Scene (The Sandy River Review Fall 2013)

46. The Willowed Landscape (The Sandy River Review Spring 2014)

47. Rain #2 (The Sandy River Review Fall 2014)

48. Journey (Eunoia Review, Singapore)

49. Nowhere To Be Found (Eunoia Review, Singapore)

50. Earth (Eunoia Review, Singapore)

51. Raven (Literature Today, India)

52. Urgency (Red Wolf Press)

53. Yuba (Lost Coast Review)

54. The Moons Deep Wounds (Lost Coast Review)

55. Gate To The One Ending (Berkeley Times)

56. A Far-Flung Future (Empty Sink Publishing)

57. Hypnotize The Beast (Empty Sink Publishing)

58. Detachment (Napalm and Novocain)

59. Then The Tumblers Rust (Original Poetry Anthology, Vol. 1)

60. Beyond Seeing Is Knowing (Stitch (the difference) Anthology)

61. In Streetlight, His Wet Hair (Switch (the difference) Anthology)

62. A Gothic Tale (Poets Of Blood, Vol. 1)

63. Autumn’s Finch (The Filid Anthology)

64. A Longer Journey (The Linnet’s Wings, Ireland)

65. Cabernet (The Recusant, U.K.)

66. Dictator (The Recusant, U.K.)

67. Useless Thoughts (The Recusant, U.K.)

68. Sadder Than Anything (The Recusant, U.K.)

69. February (The Recusant, U.K.)

70. Journals (Calliope Magazine, Chapman University)

71. Crash (Calliope Magazine)

72. Obedient (Calliope Magazine)

73. Sketches (Calliope Magazine)

74. Wildcat Canyon (KNOT Magazine)

75. Mountains (Stone Voices Magazine)

76. Old Woman (Eat Sleep Write)

77. Mockingbird (Eat Sleep Write)

78. Must Be The Rain (Eat Sleep Write)

79. Fog (Eat Sleep Write)

80. May (Eat Sleep Write)

81. Female Angles (Zygote in my Coffee)

82. The Scent Of My Lover (Perfume River Review)

83. Touch Earth Grapes (Harbinger Asylum)

84. Demons (Yellow Chair Review)

85. Misdirection (Red Wolf Journal)

86. Chair (Red Wolf Journal)

87. Small Bird (Red Wolf Journal)

88. Never A Sky Clear Enough (Abbreviate Journal)

89. Wherever I Was (Abbreviate Journal)

90. Sky Grass Dove (Abbreviate Journal)

91. December (Red River Review)

92. Homeless (Berkeley Times)

93. Tomb (Calliope Magazine, Chapman University)

94. If Truth Is Misspelled (Eunoia Review, Singapore)

95. The Vanishing Of Differences (Eunoia Review, Singapore)

96. Disordered (Sandy River Review)

97. Disheveled Boats (Dead Snakes Magazine)

98. Everyday Motion (Dead Snakes Magazine)

99. Imperfection (Dead Snakes Magazine)

100. Submarines Geese and Roots (The Galway Review, Ire)

101. The Opening (The Galway Review, Ire)

102. Change (Rose Red Review)

103. Prophet (The Canon’s Mouth, UK)

104. January (The Canon’s Mouth, UK)

105. Storm Candle Thread (The Canon’s Mouth, UK)

106. The Lake (Black Market Re-View, UK)

107. Metaphorical (Secrets and Dreams Anthology)

108. Promises (Secrets and Dreams Anthology)

109. Horseflies Pigeons Coffins (Secrets and Dreams Anthology)

110. Empty Seat (Jellyfish Whispers)

111. Forgotten Cattails (Jellyfish Whispers)

112. Myth (Jellyfish Whispers)

113. Wish For (First Class Lit Magazine)

114. Cicadas Dust Thirst (The Galway Review, Ire)   

115. Death (The Galway Review, Ire)  

116. Wings Flying Sails (The Galway Review, Ire)

117. Weather Predicts Everything (Diverse Voices Quarterly)

118. Psychoplastic (Chicago Record Magazine)

119. Runway (Chicago Record Magazine)

120. Sound (Chicago Record Magazine)

121. Yard Sale (Chicago Record Magazine)

122. Today’s High Temperature (Chicago Record Magazine)

123. Underwater, Still Breathing (Chicago Record Magazine)

124. splinter crack shatter (The Curly Mind, Spain)

125. Portrait (The Curly Mind, Spain)

126. For Never Young (The Curly Mind, Spain)

127. Without Voice Without Living (Literature Today, India)

128. Omnipotent Thoughts (A New Ulster, Ire)

129. Everything Would Be What It Isn’t (A New Ulster, Ire)

130. Little Fingers, Stitching (A New Ulster, Ire)

131. Wake Love With A Kiss (A New Ulster, Ire)

132. Something Else’s Thoughts (Indian River Review)

135. Language (Petrichor Review)

136. Faulty (Bees Are Dead Press)

137. Blank (Poems and Poetry Magazine)

138. Astral Darkness (Liquid Imagination Journal)

139. Fourth Street Scenes (The Berkeley Times)

140. Listening For The Merchant (Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Australia)

141. Every Dream Is A Crowded World (The Bombay Review)

142. Camera Obscura (Metaphor Magazine, the Philippines)

143. Diversion (Straylight Magazine)

144. Perception (Mad Swirl Magazine)

145. November (Rose Red Review)

146. Light, Compass (Communicators League, Africa)

147. How Lackeys Fade (Communicators League, Africa)

148. Babble (Communicators League, Africa)

149. Rumination (A New Ulster, Ireland)

150. Oceans Of Rain (A New Ulster, Ireland)

151. Gray, Ash (A New Ulster, Ireland)

152. Fear Future Plans (A New Ulster, Ireland)

153. Teething (Otoliths Magazine, Australia)

154. The Waiting Room (Otoliths Magazine)

155. The Discharge (Miombo Publishing, Africa)

156. Passengers (Miombo Publishing)

157. With, Without (Miombo Publishing)

158. Mathematics (Miombo Publishing)

159. Mantra As Meditation (Miombo Publishing)

160. Concerning Alberti’s Angels (Junto Magazine)

161. Feathers (Junto Magazine)

162. We Turn Into Earth (New Mystics)

163. Everything Is Skin (New Mystics)

164. Images Of Purity (New Mystics)

165. Moonstone Earring Triangle (New Mystics)

166. Water (New Mystics)

167. Mother, Mother (New Mystics)

168. Pictures Of You (Streetcake Magazine)

169. Straightforward, No Chaser (Indiana Voice Review)

170. Accessories (Indiana Voice Review)

171. Opposition (Local Nomad)

172. Words Of Dreams (Futures Trading)

173. Passing Through The Center (Futures Trading)

174. Detective (Spadina Literary Review)

175. Strong Current (Bees Are Dead Press, UK)

176. Berkeley Marina (Berkeley Times)

177. Incomplete (SHANTIH Magazine)

178. Written On A Postcard (SHANTIH Magazine)

179. Prophet’s Knife (White Ash Magazine)

180.Deep South (White Ash Magazine)

181. Migration (Otoliths Magazine, Australia)

182. Half-Buried By Change (Spillwords Magazine, Poland)

183. Pulsar (Red Wolf Journal, Singapore)

184. They Could Be Crows (Red Wolf Journal)

185. Say This In A Whisper (Red Wolf Journal)

186. Reasons (Indifaring Muse Anthology, India)

187. Anatomy Of Wordplay (Indifaring Muse Anthology, India)

188. I’ve Come Not To Believe (Gold Man Review)

189. Forty-Years, Dark Enough (Harbinger Asylum Magazine)

190. Faraway Valley (Harbinger Asylum Magazine)

191. Luminescence (Harbinger Asylum Magazine)

192. A Missing Story (Gravel Magazine)

193. Fairies (Taj Mahal Review)

194. Fox Jewel Fire (Cupid’s Anthology, CTU Publishing)

195. Summer, Ocean (Cupid’s Anthology, CTU Publishing)

196. Cicadas Coyotes Future (Jellyfish Whispers)

197. Forevermore (Jellyfish Whispers)

198. Seeds (Jellyfish Whispers)

199. Bottleneck (Mad Swirl Magazine)

200. Enlightened Ignorance (Otoliths, Australia)     

201. Nothing More (Otoliths, Australia)

202. After Before (Eunoia Review, Singapore)

203. Broken #2 (SpillWords Magazine, Poland)

204. Moths, Flame (New Mexico Review)

205. Circumnavigate (Poetry Pacific, Canada)

206. Inheritance (New Mystics Journal)

207. Inheritance #3 (New Mystics Journal)

208. Inheritance #2 (New Mystics Journal)

209. Filled With Emptiness (New Mystics Journal)

210. Book One: Epilogue (New Mystics Journal)

211. That Which Remains (New Mystics Journal)

212. Forevermore Is Timeless (New Mystics Journal)

213. Keeper Of Dust (New Mystics Journal)

214. Circumstances (New Mystics Journal)

215. Seeking Rain (Poetry Now)

216. A Purifying Release (Record Magazine)

217. Cows Crows Mushrooms (Record Magazine) formerly, Chicago Record Magazine

218. Sand Dollars (Record Magazine)

219. Book Two: Epilogue (Record Magazine)

220. Turbine (Duane’s PoeTree Journal)

221. The Majestic Enigma (Duane’s PoeTree Journal)

222. Incomplete (Duane’s PoeTree Journal)

223. The Balance Between (Duane’s PoeTree Journal)     

224. I Say Dream Only (Mad Swirl Magazine)

225. Cherub (The Pangolin Review)

226. A Discourse In Rain(Nature Writing Magazine)

227. Transmutation (Medusa’s Kitchen)

228. The Silent Seed (Medusa’s Kitchen)

229. Wise And Beautiful (Medusa’s Kitchen)

230. Liberator (Medusa’s Kitchen)

231. Above The Universe (Medusa’s Kitchen)

232. Broken (Medusa’s Kitchen)

233. The Drunkenness In Its Eyes (Medusa’s Kitchen)

234. As If Only Beginning (Medusa’s Kitchen)

235. Birds (ETHOS Literary Journal, India) Best Of The Net nominee

236. The Stillness Of Quiet Light (ETHOS Literary Journal, India)

237. After All, Enough Is Enough (The Soft Cartel)

238. Snow Glass Apple (The Soft Cartel)

239. A Rustling Imagination (The Soft Cartel)

240. Burnt Cracked Wobbly (Amethyst Review, UK)

241. Blue Waters The Sky (Amethyst Review, UK)

242. Light And Dark (Amethyst Review, UK)

243. Night Has Fallen, Aged (Poetry Now)

244. The Second It Takes To Shatter (Rye Whiskey Review)

245. Russian Poets (Rye Whiskey Review)

246. Mirror, Mirror (Rye Whiskey Review)

247. Another Picture Of You (Rye Whiskey Review)

248. To Fill This Page (Setu Magazine)

249. I Promise To Imagine (Setu Magazine)

250. Twilight Is A Sudden Sadness (Setu Magazine)

251. A Shawl Of Indigo Aura (Setu Magazine)

252. The Glazed Elixir Of A French Kiss (Setu Magazine)

253. Possessed (SpillWords Magazine, Poland)

254. We Said Hello (The Blotter Magazine)

255. For Those Who Wish And Believe (The Blotter Magazine)

256. This Is Not The End (The Blotter Magazine)

257. Puja (Mad Swirl Magazine)

258:  Imagine Not Going To War  (SpillWords Magazine, Poland)

259. I Think About Bees (Pulsar Poetry Journal, UK)

260. The Spirituality Of A Rainbow (Medusa’s Kitchen)

261. Much Older Now (Medusa’s Kitchen)

262. Tribe Of Creation (Medusa’s Kitchen)

263. From The Heart Of Love (Medusa’s Kitchen)

264. The Night’s Breath Is More Liquid (Free Lit Magazine)

265. Paradise, California (The Berkeley Times)  

266. Orange, Frost (Pangolin Review)

267. Drought (Pangolin Review)

268. Varnished Eyes (Pangolin Review)

269. Goth (Down In The Dirt)

270. Evidence: Clarity (Taj Mahal Review, India)

271. Lake As Meditation (Merak Magazine)

272. River As Meditation (Envision Arts)  

273. First Impression (Indefinite Space)

274. Petrified (He-li-o Pause)

275. How Else Can I explain…? (He-li-o Pause)

276. Fragmented (Otoliths, Australia)

277. Today Will Be … (Otoliths, Australia)

278. Between Happiness and Sadness (The Phoenix)

279. Upon The Fingers (Our Poetry Archive)

280. I AM The Poet Of Dawn (Our Poetry Archive)

281. Ocean Meditation (Our Poetry Archive)

282: Road Kill (Alien Buddha Press)

283. Boundaries (Alien Buddha Press)   

284. Earth-Mulch (Alien Buddha Press)

285. Metamorphosis (Blog Nostics)

286. Neverland (Blog Nostics)

287. Spherical (Blog Nostics)

288. Terminus (Blog Nostics)

289. Bony Body (Blog Nostics)

290. Delivered (Blog Nostics)

291. Eden (Blog Nostics)

292. Hieroglyphs (Blog Nostics)

293. Water Cave (Halfway Down The Stairs)

294. Equinox (Poetica Review)

295. Whittled (Medusa’s Kitchen)

296. Shaker (Medusa’s Kitchen)

297. Condition (Medusa’s Kitchen)

298. Bones (Medusa’s Kitchen)

299. Sailing (Medusa’s Kitchen)

300. A Light-Bulb Moment (Medusa’s Kitchen)

301. A Nighttime Meditation (Twist in Time)

302. Face Earth Sky (The Local Train)

303. Wake And Forget (Best Poetry Web Zine)

304. Sidestepping Waves (Best Poetry Web Zine)

305. Let There Be (Best Poetry Web Zine)

306. Seed (The Curly Mind, Spain)

307. Vapor (The Curly Mind, Spain)

308. Man (The Curly Mind, Spain)

309. Rocks (The Curly Mind, Spain)

310. Echo, Ech, Ec … (Ramingo’s Porch, Italy)

311. Wind-Stuffed Shells (Ramingo’s Porch, Italy)

312. Espresso Roma Café (Ramingo’s Porch, Italy)

313. The Mauve Of Fatigue (Ramingo’s Porch, Italy)

314. Very Strange (Ramingo’s Porch, Italy)

315. Fragmented No. 3 (Cajun Mutt Press)

316. Fragmented No. 4 (Cajun Mutt Press)

317. Fragmented No. 5 (Cajun Mutt Press)

318. Pulling The Shades Up (Arthut eJournal, Nigeria)

319. Balance (New Mystics Journal)

320. Cancellation (New Mystics Journal)

321. Interconnection (New Mystics Journal)

322. Shifting (New Mystics Journal)

323. Directionless (New Mystics Journal)

324. Lament, Again Lament (New Mystics Journal)

325. Drops (New Mystics Journal)

326. Cream, Cocoa (Harbinger Asylum)

327. Navigating (Harbinger Asylum)

328. Complexity (Harbinger Asylum)

329. Desert As Meditation (Slow Trains Journal)

330. Night, City (Spillwords Magazine, Poland)

331. Advanced Plastic (Mad Swirl Magazine)

332. Night, House (Red River Review)

333. Spinning (Leaves Of Ink)

334. fragmented no. 2 (Fishbowl Poetry, Germany)

335. Cellar Flood Blotter (Fishbowl Poetry, Germany)

336. Diagnosis (Fishbowl Poetry, Germany)

337. Ashes, Earth (Fishbowl Poetry, Germany)

338. Beholder (Fishbowl Poetry, Germany)

339. Habits And Rabbits (Fishbowl Poetry, Germany)

340. Miner (The Weekly Avocet)

341. Ocean As Meditation (The Avocet Journal)

342. Scenic Summer’s Day (Scarlet Leaf Review)

343. Los Angeles (Burningword Literary Journal)

344. in the brotherhood of myth (Cajun Mutt Press)

345. A Night Of Radiant Beauty (Bridging Continents Anthology, India)

346. When Hungry, Dream Longer (Bridging Continents Anthology, India)

347. Tiny May Bells Ringing (Bridging Continents Anthology, India)

348. Cape, Mask (The Pangolin Review, Republic of Mauritius)

349. Fractured (The Pangolin Review, Republic of Mauritius)

350. Fragmented No 7 (Tokyo Poetry Journal)

351. Fragmented No. 12 (Record Magazine)

352. fragmented no.8 (Record Magazine)

353. fragmented no. 11 (Record Magazine)

354. Fragmented No. 6 (Record Magazine)

355. Fragmented No. 26 (Spillwords, Poland)

356. fragmented no. 25 (Impspired Journal, U.K.)

357. fragmented no. 18 (Impspired Journal, U.K.)

358.  Fragmented No. 20 (Impspired Journal, U.K.)

359. Looking Through The Peephole (Rye Whiskey Review)

360. The Many Moods Of Barbwire (Rye Whiskey Review)

361. Fragmented No. 31 (Rye Whiskey Review)

362. Berlin 1971 (Rye Whiskey Review)

363. Fragmented No.9 (Otoliths, Australia)

364. Fragmented No. 28 (Otoliths, Australia)

365. Fragmented No. 30 (Otoliths, Australia)

366. fragmented no. 27 (Into The Void)

367. Morning, Café (The Mark Lit Review)

368. Fragmented No. 32 (The Blotter)

369. Paperclip (The Blotter)

370. Coffee Cup, Empty (The MetaWorker)

371. Night, Desert (KNOT Magazine)

372. Night, Forest (KNOT Magazine)

373. Night, Valley  (KNOT Magazine)

374. fragmented no. 13 (Broadkill Review)

375. A Dull Clapping Of Tarps (The Berkeley Times)

376. Ordinary Insomnia (Verse-Virtual)

377. fragmented no. 22 (Madswirl Magazine)

378. fragmented no. 34  (Poetica Review)

379. Fragmented No. 21 (Poetica Review)

380. The Tick Of A Broken Clock (Poetica Review)

381. Stillness Is A Gesture (Surreal Poetics)

382. The Heart Descending (Our Poetry Archive, India)

383. The Book (Our Poetry Archive, India)

384. Night, River (Our Poetry Archive, India)

385. Labyrinth (Our Poetry Archive, India)

386. If One Can Imagine (Our Poetry Archive, India)

387. Child Cymbals Firecrackers (SpillWords, Poland)

388. Isabella (Lowestoft Chronicle)

389. Far Beyond, Years Later (Lowestoft Chronicle)

390. i am saying , i have said nothing (Streetcake Magazine, UK)

391. fragmented no. 36 (The Dope Fiend)

392. Imagination (The Dope Fiend)

394. fragmented no. 23 (The Dope Fiend)

395. Fragmented No. 24 (The Dope Fiend)

396. light weight of everything (Verse-Virtual)

397. Urban Mutt (1870 Magazine)

398. fragmented no. 14 (Impspired Journal, U.K.)

399. fragmented no. 17 (Impspired Journal, U.K.)

400. fragmented no. 33 (Impspired Journal, U.K.)

401. existential trauma (Lothlorien Poetry, U.K.)

402. Saying All There Is To Say (Lothlorien Poetry, U.K.)

403. Invention Of A New Meaning (Lothlorien Poetry, U.K.)

404. The Uncertainty Of Glass Locks (Lothlorien Poetry, U.K.)

405. An Eye Seen , And Still Another (Lothlorien Poetry, U.K.)

406. Cardboard Houses (Train River Publishing)

407. two postage stamps, leaving (Canjun Mutt Press)

408. traced , wet sand (Lothlorien Poetry, U.K.)

409. fragmented no. 39 (Lothlorien Poetry, U.K.)

410. everything took on its proper shape (Lothlorien Poetry, U.K.)

411. the gutters of theology (Lothlorien Poetry, U.K.)

412. fragmented no. 35 (Lothlorien Poetry, U.K.)

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NOTE:

“Solo Flight” and “In Streetlight, His Wet Hair” published again in The Best of 2014 Anthology, from ‘Kind Of A Hurricane Press’

“Solo Flight” was also published in Metaphor Magazine (Philippines)

“Chair” was also published in Creative Talents Unleashed

“Sound” was also published in The Curly Mind (Spain)

“Pictures Of You” was also published in Indiana Voice Review

“A Longer Journey” was also published in The Recusant (UK)

“Accessories” was also published in Local Nomad   

“Runaway” was also published in Verse-Virtual and Ones Person’s Trash

“Nocturne in d minor” was also published in Creative Talents Unleashed

“Moonstone Earring Triangle” was also published in Oyster River Pages

“A Missing Story” was also published in Say This In A Whisper (Red Wolf Editions)

“Faulty” was also published in Total Dreamer (India)

“Sand Dollars” was also published in New Mexico Review

“Moths, Flames” was also published in Poetry Pacific (Canada)

“I Say Dream Only” was also published in Duane’s PoeTree Journal

“Seeking Rain” and “Inheritance” were also published in New Mystics

“Espresso Roma Café” was also published in the Berkeley Times

“The Stillness Of Quiet Light”, “Blue Waters The Sky”, and “A Discourse In Rain” were also published in Indiana Voice Journal

“To Fill This Page”, “I Promise To Imagine”,  “Twilight Is A Sudden Sadness”, “A Shawl Of Indigo Aura”, and “The Glazed Elixir Of A French Kiss”, “Between Happiness and Sadness” were first published in my first book: In Forbidden Language (Stillpoint Books, 2010)

“Night Has Fallen, Aged” was first published in my seventh book: Something Else’s Thoughts (Transcendent Zero Press, 2018)

“Some God” was also published in Harbinger Asylum (Pushcart nominated)

“We Said Hello”, “For Those Who Wish And Believe” and “This Is Not The End” were first published in my third book: If You Have One Moment

“The Night’s Breath Is More Liquid” was also published in Medusa’s Kitchen

“Puja” was also published in Mad Swirl Anthology: Best of 2018

“Road Kill” and “Cape, Mask” were also published in Little Something Press

“Complexity”, “Miner”, “Spinning” and “Gray Rooms, Wet Cloth” were also published in Scarlet Leaf Press

“Fragmented No.3” was also published in (The Pangolin Review, Republic of Mauritius)

“fragmented no.8” was also published in An Elephant Never

“Fragmented No. 6” was also published in E-ratio

“The Rain, After” was first published as “One Word”

“Prophet” was first published as “Pink Prophet”

“A Purifying Release” was first published as “Apology”

“Mantra As Meditation” was first published as “Concentration On Meditation”

“Fractured” was first published as Nut And Bolts

“Fragmented No 7” was also published in Record magazine

Secrets and Dreams Anthology (publisher: Kind Of A Hurricane Press)

“Wind-Stuffed Shells”, “Echo, Ech, Ec”, “Very Strange” were also published in KNOT Magazine

“Advanced Plastic” was also published in Mad Swirl Anthology, Best Of 2019

“fragmented no. 21″ was also published in The Courtship Of The Wind

“fragmented no. 34” was first published as a two-stanza draft in Poetica Review

“Invention Of A New Meaning” was also published in Moss Trill

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Essay: “Grandmother” (Estuary Magazine)

Essay: “Bonnie Parker, Poet” (The Linnet’s Wings, Ireland)

He watched her coming up the front walk holding a pamphlet. A tan shoulder bag hung low. He peeked through a crack in the curtain and thought: She’s a babe. Good looking. Stylish. The doorbell rang and shortly after there was a gentle knock. Exhaling a long shaky breath, Reed opened the door.
    “Hi, I’m Astrid. I was wondering if you have a minute to talk about the state of the world and to consider what religion has to say about these dire times?” She spoke fast, with confidence.
    Reed looked her up and down. She wore a tight, light-green zipper-front sleeveless dress. The green ignited her hazel eyes and her long red hair, and she had curves that could make any man, woman or Rabbi crawl the gauntlet for her approval. 
    “Um, sure. Okay. Ah, would you like to come in and, um, have a seat?”
    She came in and parked her bottom on the couch. Reed sat next to her, as close as he could without imposing himself. He wanted to sit closer.

    Astrid crossed her legs and the short dress slid up. Her thigh was creamy, dessert-like.

    She opened the pamphlet and threw her hair back as if a breeze had caught it for a second.

When she straightened her posture, her small breasts shot upward like vigorous birds in flight.

    Reed gasped. Tremors overtook his body. He shivered, squirmed, and squeezed his thighs together. 
    “Is everything alright?” she asked.
    “Yes, I’m fine. Um, can I get you a drink? Water, juice, bourbon?”  
    The bourbon slipped out like confessing to an addiction. He blushed. Astrid smiled.     Reed apologized. “I’m sorry. The bourbon is a habit when asking––’’
    “I’d love a bourbon. On the rocks with water. Thank you.”
    He couldn’t stop staring at her. She looked about twenty-eight, maybe thirty, and he was taken by her physical radiance and by the fact that she was sitting on his couch.  
    “The drink?” she asked playfully.

–– First published in Otoliths Magazine (Australia)

Publisher: Mark Young

“Something To Believe” since its first, the story has been published five more times.