A Love Letter to Say There Is No Love is a dark and sometimes surreal collection where domestic life is not only lonely but buzzes with potential harm. Disillusioned, the poems offer language and images of home, motherhood, and romantic love that come out of a resigned duress and which include bees, bats, car accidents, war, and strangers knocking at the door. Even so, the speaker of the poems finds ways to cope: "...when the men walk through the house/ I pretend my body is the frame/ and they a flock of birds/ caught for a moment in the rafters."
Publications
Books:
White Doe, Saddle Road Press, forthcoming 2024
A Love Letter to Say There Is No Love, FutureCycle Press, 2010
Poems:
“Walk-Through” –Allium, 2024
“Burial” – Allium, 2024
“My Father Heading North” – Pank, 2018
“The Doe” – Quarterly West, 2017
“Not Dead Yet” – Boxcar Poetry Review, 2012
“Before the Storm” – Bateau, 2010
“Last Night the Fan Whirred in the Window” – Bateau, 2010
“Carrying Water” – Bateau, 2010
“The Heart Long Gone” – Belleview Literary Review, 2009
“The Woven River” – Turners Falls River Culture Public Art Project, 2009
“Ask Me How I Am” – Chronogram Magazine, 2009
“Composition in Red and Green” – Sous Rature, 2009
“Peripheral Error (After Moritake) Cymothoe Coccinata” – Sous Rature, 2009 “CIE 529/418 (candlelight)” – Sous Rature, 2009
“A New Country” – Holly Rose Review, 2008
“Untitled” – Quay, 2007
“Swallow” – The Pitkin Review, 2007
“sticks and feathers” – The Pitkin Review, 2007
“dissemination” – The Pitkin Review, 2007
“A Certain Way” – The Pitkin Review, 2006
Winner of the Verse Daily Prize, White Doe travels the landscape of grief as experienced through dementia, a fragmented, snowy tundra where forgetting is a journey toward discovering one’s truest self. Follow the speaker and her father as they embark upon this transformation together with the help of a white doe and a community of birds, fields, and coyotes.