Poems

A Year of Denver in Three Hours
Elephant Envy
I Do Thankful

as seen in J Radiology Nursing

 It Was a School Day
Motorists

as seen in Evening Street Review

Seated on My Hospital Bed
Phlebotomist

as seen in Pulse

Half-Page Photo in a Magazine
Efflorescence
Hummingbird

as seen in The Ravens Perch

Not Doing the Impossible

as seen in Burningword Literary Journal

Victory Garden
A Club for Us Who Almost Died
Dismantled

as seen in The Healing Muse

Bone Marrow Biopsy
With Feathers

as seen in JAMA Oncology

The Hospital Mail

as seen in JAMA

In the Local Gallery

as seen in Common Ground Review

“I’m radioactive. The technician said so after I asked him . . . .”

— from “A Year of Denver in Three Hours”

Doctor as Patient
Maintenance Fatigue
Elder Care at Ninety-Six

as seen in Reflective MedEd

For Now

as seen in Barrow Street Journal

Papier Mache

as seen in The Worcester Review

Demolition
Transfusion

as seen in New Limestone Review

Performance

as seen in THEMA

Meet George

as seen in American Journal of Nursing

Waffle House, Midnight

as seen in Naugatuck River Review

Cosmic Questions

as seen in Inscape

Meeting My Old Boyfriend after 30 Years

as seen in Zingara Poetry Review

Therapy

as seen in The Sunlight Press

Grandma
Singing

as seen in Poetry South

“I tend to sweep all mine under.”

— from “In the Local Gallery”

From the End

as seen in Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing

Donor Search

as seen in The Examined Life Journal of the Carver College of Medicine

Patients Dropping Hair
Feature Film: Drug Study KEP DR78
PTSD

as seen in The Main Street Rag

Phantasmagoria
Proudly We Hailed

as seen in NewBostonPost

MRI
In the Doctor’s Waiting Room

as seen in Families, Systems, & Health

Message in the Hat
Wanted: Lust
Finals or Firsts
The Nurses in There

as seen in Touch: The Journal of Healing

From Cover of Trees
Buying a Pumpkin on Chemo

as seen in The Somerville Times

New Clock
Marooned in Dry Dock
Locked Out

as seen in Blood and Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine

Rose Quartz Geode

as seen in Bloodletter’s Literary Magazine

“. . . it being the only time we have for doing, and kinder than being in the mean time.”

— from “For Now”

Smothered
Long Winter

as seen in Apeiron Review

No One
Trompe l’Oeil

as seen in Blast Furnace

Swallowing a Pebble in My Breakfast Cereal

as seen in Earth’s Daughters

Melody on the Loose

as seen in The Somerville News

Car Wash

as seen in The Pharos

Woven Potholder

as seen in The Comstock Review

Found

as seen in Boston Literary Magazine

Sounds of Milk

as seen in Steam Ticket

Around Her Table
Barbara’s Words

as seen in what the poem knows, vols. 1 & 2

Citrus aurantium
I Fled

as seen in The Practicing Poet: Writing Beyond the Basics

Summer Treasure

as seen in Joys of the Table: An Anthology of Culinary Verse

My Unborn

as seen in paniK: Candid Stories of Life Altering Experiences Surrounding Pregnancy

The Walker

as seen in the blog, The Sunday Poet

August Midnight

as seen in the blog, But Does It Rhyme?