Poetry

“Cool Heads,” Bending Genres, Issue 47, October 14, 2025.

“Overnight They Morph,” Bending Genres, Issue 47, October 14, 2025.

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“It Wasn’t the Flowers,” Ekphrastic Review – annual marathon – Perfect 10, poetry finalist, September 15, 2025. Read in photo below or click on link above and scroll down list which is alphabetical by poets’ last names.

“After the Flood” and “Unable to Takeoff,” Temple in a City, Issue 1, June 2025.

“In the Wind the Clouds,” a prose poem response to Angela Lillico’s painting, “Beneath the Wind and Waves,” in The Poetry of Painting show at the Mennonite Heritage Centre Gallery in Winnipeg, January 31 – March 22, 2025. Photo & poem below:

In the Wind the Clouds

She’s not in the distant group taking on the wind-churned water with head-first bravado. Squeals. Shrieks. Guffaws. To her, those are only distant echos, muffled by the water trapped in her ears, as she floats on her back in the sun-warmed pool sheltered between rocky outcrops that have chosen to belie their hard reputation. She holds a hand up to the sky, watches the windswept clouds weave and tangle with her waving fingers, before making their own escape. 

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“Like the Landscape,” a prose poem in response to Angela Lillico’s painting, ”Moss You Step on Me,” in The Poetry of Painting show at the Mennonite Heritage Centre Gallery in Winnipeg, January 31 – March 22, 2025. Photo & poem below:

Like the Landscape

Back when you were a free-run child, your bare summer-leathered feet so easily took on the shield’s wrinkled stones and rocky crevices. No real need for the mossy protection that’s now required to soften creaky knees and wobbly landings.

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“Jewel-Toned Distraction,” a prose poem in response to Genevie Henderson’s painting, “Coffee at Midnight” shown in Poetry of Painting at Prairie Fusion Gallery in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada. November 2024. Photo below.

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“Who Decides Which are Weeds?,” Writing in a Woman’s Voice, Sept. 7, 2024.

“Breaking Out,” Writing in a Woman’s Voice, July 29, 2024.

“Water Tempted,” Writing in a Woman’s Voice, July 28, 2024.

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“Temperatures Rising,” Winnipeg Free Press, Writes of Spring: WFP and Winnipeg International Writers Festival, April 27, 2024.

“Comfort Care,” SugarSugarSalt, July 28, 2023. Reprinted from Writing in a Woman’s Voice (see below). Click on link & go to archives list to click on my name.

“Missing the Shot,” Versification Poetry Zine, Issue: Fall 2023. Scroll down 2/3 in issue.

A reading, for 2Poem2 Tuesday – Turnstone Press, of two poems originally published in New Flash Fiction Review (see below), March 2021.

“Comfort Care,” Writing in a Woman’s Voice, January 7, 2021.

“Three Prose Poems,” New Flash Fiction Review, January 7, 2020.

“Taking Off,” Vallum: Contemporary Poetry, Issue 16:1 (print & online), Spring 2019.

“Anticipation,” “Worm,” & “Dancing,” & 2 photographs, Door A Jar (print), Spring 2019.