I have TWO poems published in Blue Daisies Journal this month! As soon as I saw that Issue V: Abyssaire would be gothic-themed, I knew exactly which poems I wanted to submit, and I’m so happy that these two were accepted. And that they’re the issue openers!

This is my third time to be published with Blue Daisies, and it’s always a pleasant experience working with them.

Enjoy the excerpts below, and read both poems and the whole issue at Blue Daisies Journal.

Hello. Is Anyone There? (Nobody Listened to Me) an Ouija poem (aka predictive text poem)

I’m listening.          Nobody listened to me.

          Heaven’s a mass unmeasured. Worms guard,

grey ghosts crawl          up dining rooms on earth’s bosom.

The Spirit of Wednesday Addams Once Entered My Body

I woke with my arms corpse crossed over my chest and hissed at the crush of October sun. I dreamt that I was coffin bound six feet under beetle-rich loam—no vocal chords from which to scream, no string to pull a warning of bells. It was nirvana. Until daylight dragged me from such an agreeably morbid womb.