
I slithered out of / my own /
From “I Found My Way,” an erasure of I Found My Way: An Autobiography by Margery Wilson (Lippincott, 1956)
tendrils
Visual Poems
Bellingham Review: [words gather,] [to save ourselves,] [Our nerves were tense]
Indianapolis Review: [to save ourselves]
Tupelo Quarterly: “I Found My Way” and A Portfolio of Erasures
Still: A Journal: Five Visual Poems
Poems from Millie MacAdoo Takes Note
Mudlark: Eight poems
Still: The Journal: “Millie’s Origin Story” and “Dear Charlie: Letters Written in Library Books”
Good River Review: “Clew”
Poems from Studies of Familiar Birds
American Life in Poetry: “Robbing the Bees”
The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: “The Last Time My Father Left the House,”“Fever,” “Study for Ruby-Throated Hummingbird,” “Portrait of Genevieve as a Young Woman,” and “After the Diagnosis”
Beloit Poetry Journal: “Green Heron (PLATE XXVII),” “Black-Capped Chickadee (PLATE LXVI),” and “Kentucky Warbler (PLATE LXVII)”
Terrain.org: “Field Sketch for Meadow Lark,” “Study for Long-Billed Marsh Wren,” “Long-Billed Marsh Wren (PLATE XLVI.),” and “Climbing for Nests”
DIAGRAM: “Ruby-Throated Hummingbird (PLATE XXV. Fig. 1)” and “Golden-Winged Warbler (PLATE LXL. Fig. 2)”
The Drum: “Coquina Rock” and “Test Drive”
Other Poems
Salvation South: “Somewhere, Summer” and “Eating Apples”
Terrain: “Incomplete Abecedarian of Censored Words” and “More Questions of Travel”
Guitarist Scott Whiddon and multi-instrumentalist J. Tom Hnatow developed music to accompany “Bird in a Bell Jar.” The poem appeared in the Transylvania University BYTE Gallery of Digital Art and Music. Listen to the poem on Soundcloud.
DIAGRAM: “How to Read Me (October Birthday Cake)”