This little horror poem isn’t for the squeamish. The idea came to me when I was thinking about the notes my friends and I used to leave in each other’s lockers in middle school. I miss those notes. But I’m happy no one ever left any of these items in my locker. “Someone” was firstContinue reading “Someone”
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Night Travel: A Found Poem
You may stop holding your breath now. I made it home from my workshop with horror writers at the cabin in the woods. Books with Bite was amazing, as was the entire Highlights Foundation experience. I’ll tell you all about it after I get some sleep and readjust to the real world, but today IContinue reading “Night Travel: A Found Poem”
Underneath
I spent the weekend grading my students’ journals, and it made me want to post this poem, which was published in Encore: Prize Poems of the NFSPS in 2015. Underneath I straightened the mirror a couple of times, so I have OCD, then got distracted by a dog, so you added ADD. I washed my handsContinue reading “Underneath”
