Host

in Eighty Six Four Hundred, an Anthology of Time, from [Title] Publishing House, an initiative out of the Creative Writing Department, headed by Jim Blaylock, of the Orange County High School of the Arts.

Poem's first version, August 31, 2011; finished final draft, April 20, 2012.

Maintenance or How to Spend a Perfect Night in New Orleans

in an anthology called You Don't Say: Stories in the Second-Person published by Ink Monkey Press. Written Sept 8, 2009, significantly revised Sept 13, 2011, finished Oct 7, 2011. 775 words.

in The Mom Egg

a poem that was prose for a long time. Originally wrote the short piece some time between late July 2008 and mid-late August '08; changed into a poem Aug. 24, 2011 (12 lines, 88 words). It's now in the 10th anniversary issue of The Mom Egg, called "The Body."

The Fig Tree

in the December 2011 issue of Halfway Down the Stairs.  I started a much longer version of this story on May 31, 2008.  On December 16, 2009, I started whittling it down, working on it off and on, until I was finished on November 5, 2011.  2217 words.

Immobile

in the July 2011 issue of Perspectives Magazine.

I wrote the first version of this poem (January 8, 2011) from the point of view of the owner of the phone. Changed the POV to that of the phone itself, which seemed to open up the poem and its possibilities. (Accepted February 16, 2011. Last revision, May 27, 2011.) Definitely a work of imagination -- I don't even have a cell phone of my own.

Beignets in Japan

in the June 2011 issue of Halfway Down the Stairs.

First version of the poem was written March 18, 2011, exactly a week after the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Final version finished around May 5.

haiku

in the June 2011 issue of Country Roads Magazine.

Created February 25, 2011, recalling image seen November 21, 2010.

Roundup

at Mused: BellaOnline Literary Review, Volume 5, Issue 1, Spring 2011.

A poem that was originally about 'words' and written in the first person (Dec 1, 2010). It turned out to be about memories when I changed it to the third person. (January 24, 2011)