Collected Selections

from a place-based manuscript-in-progress centered on California’s Red Rock Canyon

  • “Volition.” Sonora Review, 2025.
  • “Singing Along to the Roadside Graves,” “It’s About Time,” “Continually Changing Conditions,” “Conglomeration,” “Illiquidity,” “Floating End Parenthesis,” and “To Identify the End of a Portion of Text.” Old Pal, 2023.
  • “( Caption: add to the startling effect )” and “( Caption: the appearance of dampened clay ).” Amsterdam Review, 2022.

from an ekphrastic manuscript-in-progress centered on the art of Rufino Tamayo

  • “Still Life, 1928.” Juked, 2021.
  • “The Yellow Chair.” Counterclock, 2019.
  • “Cosmic Terror.” Moria, 2018.
  • “Man with Birds” and “The Astrologers of Life.” Longleaf Review, 2018.
  • “The Astronomer” and “Man with Flower.” Oxidant/Engine, 2017.
  • “Academic Painting.” Willawaw, 2017.

from This Is Not Your Moon (Holding for Dissolve, 2020)

  • “Tidal Friction (The Moon Moves from Earth at the Same Speed Our Fingernails Grow).” Exposition Review, 2016.
  • “Reservation with Wolves.” Unsplendid, 2015.
  • “Field Dressing.” Atlas and Alice, 2015.
  • “On the Election of Our Immersion.” Catamaran, 2015.

miscellaneous prose

  • “Decolonization.” Storm Cellar, 2019.
  • “Three in the Morning.” Former Cactus, 2018.
  • “Excavations: On Richard Buckner’s The Hill.” Memoir Mixtapes, 2018.
  • “In Situ.” Drunk Monkeys, 2017.
  • “Call It.” Oblong, 2017.

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