Writing
And when you think about it, poets always want us to be moved by something, until in the end, you begin to suspect a poet is someone who is moved by everything, who just stands in front of the world and weeps and laughs and laughs and weeps (the mysteries, said Aristotle, are the saying of many ridiculous and many serious things).
Mary Ruefle
Tiny Talks with Kale Hensley
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Mystic Origin Story
Now, where can I find a cross-toting beloved to pay homage to my heels the color of hard candies?
The Gentle Art of Leeching
O’ these ripe battles living in our names
the kitchen parties, the oceans subtle.
Oyez
Been told I reek of sex and grief, at least, that is what boys with receeding hairlines seem to think.
Online Publications
Sphagia / Sontag Mag
2025
Bad Faith / The Table Review
2025
The Mysterious Doodles / New Delta Review
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Variations in Stain / Rust & Moth
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A Light Touch / Midway Journal
2025
Two Poems / Salvation South
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All My Prayers in Blood & Cream / Jelly Squid
The Works of Flesh are Manifest/ Booth
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The Gentle Art of Beseeching / Amethyst Review
Three Poems / Evergreen Review
2024
Two Poems / Many Nice Donkeys
2024
Heartfast / Amethyst Review
2024
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Chigger Chug / The Hopper
Mrs. Not Me / midsummer magazine
2024
Halloween 2017 / miniskirt magazine
2024
Two Poems / The Clayjar Review
2024
Three Poems / The Squawk Back
2024
My Kink Was Heat / LAROLA
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I Asked a Saint to Ruin / The Crawfish
Christina Beyond the Curtain / Image
2024
Troffea Confessional / Lucent Dreaming
2024
2023
Two Poems / Screen Door Review
Morning Glory / Sweet Lit
2023
2022
Self Portrait as St. Lucy’s / Red Ogre Review
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![A magazine cover titled 'REED Magazine, California's oldest literary journal,' featuring an illustration of a bear with several blue and white birds perched on its back.]()
So Shiny, So Deep, So Unlike Me
I cannot help but finish a thought in the color red, as if my mere saying is life and death.
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![Book cover titled 'All Shall Be Well: Poems for Julian of Norwich,' edited by Sarah Law, featuring an illustration of a nun with a halo, holding a book and a cat, with green leaves in the background.]()
Julian then Norwich
Its light thumbed my tongue in cinnamon, revealed a passion composed of wet ribbons.
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![A graphic illustration featuring a dead deer with an arrow through its side, blood dripping from the wound, set against a black background with gold stars. The text reads 'Let's Stab Caesar! Volume V The Sacred Edition' at the top.]()
We're Finally Drunk Enough to Watch Ice-Skating Videos
Touch always returns to the earth. we return to those arms that do not know how to lose us.
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![Book cover titled "The Third Bullshit Lit" edited by Veronica Bennett with bold, black and white comic-style text on a green background.]()
Skate Trick
If you’re gonna brand me, do it with lipstick. My blood will cover it.
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![Magazine cover featuring a cosmic theme with swirling galaxies and nebulae, titled '(tiny SPOON) Issue 13'. The large text at the bottom reads 'SUPERSTITION / DIVINATION'.]()
Braiding the Girl
Tomorrows arrived silly as sparrows, his eye fat on me the creek I ate eagerly.
