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Big Mouth
Alice enters a Nebraska fair’s marble-mouth contest and finds the courage to name what has been silently haunting her.
Collected Works in Contemporary Art and Literature
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The Great Plains
“There was no thought of an egotistical self-sacrifice, no thought of anything left behind… only the immediate bliss of the end of the physical self.”
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The First Person: Voice of the Inexperienced and the Narcissist
“The self becomes the measure of the universe, to the detriment of literary depth… Literature ceases to be a vessel for empathy and becomes a stage for self-confirmation.”
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A Little Birdie Told Me
“New York City arms / around the girl and her dreams / opening poems and poets / walking and sweating / flitting around salsa / on Pier 45 at dusk”
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Their Story is in the Rain
“They walk, the drops falling / like punctuation / on their decisions.” A quiet confrontation with truth, where rain doesn’t cleanse—it reveals.
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Time, love, and regret
“Like boulders surrendering to time / and mountain streams that through them whet / their bulk to granules of regret…”
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Etiquette and Other Fictions
“It all seemed like a vast stretch, For me at least. Especially when it came to our cousins, Joe and Primo, Who would laugh at us for our actions. Trying…
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On the Artist and the Algorithm
AI art isn’t the enemy. It’s the next brush. There is no equity in art, only merit. You are either worthy of being seen, or you are not.
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Scars and words
“She taught me to sew scars shut with words, but every thread unravels in the moonlight.”
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Grief and grace
A luminous cycle of psalms, grief, and grace—bearing witness to kindness, war, exile, and the fragile pause before flight.