When Silly Goose Press called for “Offerings to the Sturgeon Moon,” I placed one of my favorite poems on its moon-scaled altar, and I’m so so happy to share that it found a home in the mini issue!

I wrote this poem in the 2025 workshop “You Don’t Have to Tell the Truth” with Asa Drake. She asked us to enter a story we love and tell our own version of it. The result was a poem that merged Twin Peaks with The Little Mermaid.

This was a year after I released Blue Rose , and I was so frustrated that this poem didn’t get to be in that collection. BUT it has become one of the main poems that inspired one of my current WIPs (which I can’t wait to share more about in the future).

For now, it lives in “Offerings for the Sturgeon Moon,” and I couldn’t have asked for a better first home.

Enjoy the excerpt below!

If I Should Wash Upon the Shore, Dead, Wrapped in Plastic
after Natalie Diaz's "If I Should Come Upon Your House Lonely in the West Texas Desert"

like a rotten plum swaddled in wax paper,
I will throw the cut ends of my vocal chords

across pewter lake, let them wrap
like tentacles around your ankles.

While the men examine my body,
I will reel you across the rotting logs

and water-smoothed stones, lizard
tongues of water nymphs, up the lichened

slopes of my chest.

Read the full poem in Silly Goose Press’s “Offerings to the Sturgeon Moon.”

Artwork: “The Death of Sappho” by Charles Amable Lenoir (1896)