… “Fishermen are superstitious of their souls”…
2018 Oregon Poetry Association spring competition,
2013 Boise State University President’s Writing Award
The Weatherman
“I don’t watch the weather channel. I read seed catalogues…”
Published in Persimmon Tree, summer issue 2018
Death of an Archaeologist
sonnet from “Hard Rime.”
Honorable mention, Oregon State Poetry Society, 2018
RANCH GIRL REPORTS
Mount Mazama is where Crater Lake is. The native Shasti legend is that Shasta, the fire god warred with Mazama, threw rocks at him and Crater Lake was the result.
Wildfire
From the collection, Hard Rime, “Wildfire,” was nominated by editor Whitney Scott of Outrider Press for a 2016 Pushcart Prize.