Welcome to this quick summary of my published poetry and fiction–Darrell
Plus work upcoming in Instant Noodles, CC and D Magazine, Origami Poems, Soul-Lit, Moss Piglet, Amethyst Review, Willawaw Journal…
When Corals Have Sex But Can’t Make Babies @ The New Verse News September 9, 2022
It’s Elementary @ Monterey Poetry Review September 1, 2022
Good Ol’ Mom and Pop @ Soor Ploom Press August 29, 2022
Boy With a Stick @ Your Daily Poem August 8, 2022
About Your Warring Sides @ Visible Magazine August 2, 2022
He Tells Himself; The Peripatetic Psalmist (Two Poems) @ Plum Tree Tavern (Homeless Issue) July 2022
Late Snow @ The Orchards Poetry Journal Summer 2022
Less Vodka, More Beer @ Pure Slush (Cow Issue) June 2022, Issue #23
Marilyn’s Beauty Mark @ Moss Piglet (Portraits Issue) June 2022
What’s In A Name @ Hobo Camp Review Summer 2022, Issue 42
Seasons of Darkness and Light; From the World Desk (Two poems) @ POETiCA REViEW Summer 2022, Issue 14
A Necessary Mercy @ Write City Magazine May 20, 2022
Praying For You, Gov @ The New Verse News May 18, 2022
The Star Trail @ Your Daily Poem May 10, 2022
Of Birthrights and Bombs; The Old CO (Two Poems) @ Verse-Virtual Vol 9 No 5, May 2022
Three Tanka @ Poetry Super Highway, 24th Annual Holocaust Remembrance Day Issue April 25, 2022
One Earth, One Life @ Plum Tree Tavern April 11, 2022
To Old Grass and Weeds @ The Bluebird Word April 3, 2022
Origins @ Last Leaves Magazine Issue 4-Ancestors Spring 2022
Haiku; How It Ended (Two poems) @ Bones Journal #23 March 29, 2022
Haiku @ Cold Moon Journal March 7, 2022
Lives Lived @ First Literary Review-East Winter 2022
Days Before Time – with commentary (Plainsongs Award Poem) @ Plainsongs Winter 2022
JohnHenryVille v. The Juggernaut @ Blue Collar Review Winter 2021-22
Mid-Winter Haiku @ Red Alder Review January 3, 2022
Three Haiku @ bear creek haiku December 26, 2021
Eyes Forward @ The New Verse News December 5, 2021
Sweater Logic @ Silver Birch Press November 4, 2021
Featured Haiku @ Haikuniverse October 31, 2021
Old Man Taking Account @ 3rd Wednesday Magazine October 26, 2021
Haiku @ Haiku in Action (Nick Virgilio Haiku Association October 28, 2021
Apologia to Coffee @ Neologism Poetry Journal Issue 53, October 2021
As Greta Thunberg Says @ Topical Poetry October 10, 2021
SOS in Sand @ Ariel Anthology – Water (Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets) September 2021
The Poet’s Life as a Dog @ One Sentence Poems September 9, 2021
Riverine Passages @ Riverbed Review Issue #3 August 15, 2021
When All Through the House @ Dwelling Literary Magazine August 2021 #9
Cool Sweetness Comes Singing @ Devil’s Party Press/Instant Noodles Volume 1, Issue 2, Summer 2021
Lottery Night, 1969; To an Upstart Musk Thistle (Two poems) @ Verse-Virtual July 2021
Imperfect Tense; Like the Willow; Why Had We Fought (Three poems,PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINATION) @ The BeZine June 15, 2021
Woodman, Don’t Spare That Tree @ Kitchen Sink Magazine Summer 2021
Three Summer Haiku @ Red Alder Review May 31, 2021
The Final Rain @ Silver Birch Press May 23, 2021
Love Persevering @ Round Table Literary Journal Volume 55, Spring 2021, pages 89-90
Like Ghosts Upon the Land @ The Remnant Archive (India) May 12, 2021, page 68
RAP RAP RAP @ Topical Poetry Journal May 9, 2021
Nearing Shelter @ Dribble Drabble Review Issue 3, Spring 2021
The Prevalance of Snow @ Bright Flash Literary Review April 5, 2021
The Solace of Things; The Collared Heart (2 poems) @ Verse-Virtual Volume 8, No. 4, April 2021
The Body Politic; The Genie; Miners (3 poems) @ Brickplight Volume 2, No. 3, April 2021
Tiny Town Wisconsin @ Cacti Fur March 24, 2021
Neighbor @ The Metaworker March 22, 2021
New Beginnings: A Posthumous Interview With My Farming Father (Nonfiction) @ Farmer-ish Volume 4, No. 1 Spring 2021
Featured Haiku @ Haikuniverse March 14, 2021
Monuments to Bounty @ Dwelling Literary Magazine March 8, 2021
From a Buick-Kind-of-Place @ Yellow Mama Issue #84 February 15, 2021
Making Space at Table @ Beir Bau Journal February 1, 2021, page 29
(6 prose pieces) Foundations of Understanding: Exercise #1; love alone; no indictments, anachronisms, in godly fashion, Softly, Efficiently, the Machine Hums @ Otoliths January 31, 2021
Mid-Winter Haiku @ Red Alder Review January 8, 2021
Rage and Jam @Free Flash Fiction January 7, 2021
Finding Words @ Nixes Mate Review Issue 16/17 Covid 2020, January 1, 2021
Island in the River @ Riverbed Review December 28, 2020
For the Love of Fresh-Baked Bread @ Amethyst Review December 28, 2020
whatever @ The Daily Drunk Magazine December 27, 2020
Hen and Chicks: Genus Sempervivum; Bearing Witness (Two Poems) @ Grand Little Things December 24, 2020
Electra Down @ First Literary Review – East, November 2020
The Thinker 2020 @ Eunoia Review November 24, 2020
The Somnambulists @Bluepepper, November 19, 2020
The Red Fox @Loch Raven Review, Volume 16, No. 2
With Love, Your Mother @ Red Eft Review, November 8, 2020
Just Fallujah @ The Centifictionist, November 3, 2020
Sine Nomine @ Rat’s Ass Review, Winter 2020
The Lazarus Legacy @ Front Porch Review, Volume 12, October 2020
When Something Terrible; Last Surviving Memories (Two Poems) @ Anti-Heroin Chic, Issue # 17, October 2020
The Heart Is a Can; In Defense; Takeaways From a Life Well Lived; Silent Words (Four Poems) @ Dreich Magazine October 2020
In Duhkha’s Fire; Lawn Care; Letting Go @ Buddhist Poetry Review Volume 3, Issue 3, Fall 2020
The Pheasant and the Pandemic @ Woods Reader Autumn 2020
Product @ Blue Collar Review, Fall 2020
Forever Nine @ The Drabble September 24, 2020
No more the spring-fed creek–haibun @ failed haiku – journal of English senryu, Vol. 5 Issue 57 Summer 2020
For You Know What @ FewerThan500 September 6, 2020
About Family @ Cabinet of Heed Issue 38, September 2020
Late-night Greyhound; Snapshot of Auntie @ Fourth & Sycamore August 11, 2020
Timepiece @ Potato Soup Journal August 3, 2020
The Hobnobbing Doorknob (page 9) || Through a Blue Cat’s Eye (page 22) @ Perspectives Magazine, July 2020
You Are Here; Skid Row Prayer (Two Poems) @ Soul-Lit, Volume 25, Summer 2020
Final Jeopardy @ New Verse News, July 20, 2020
That Something @ Amethyst Review, July 9, 2020
Laid Off, As In @ Blue Collar Review, Summer 2020
Teeth of the Storm @ Boston Literary Magazine, June 15, 2020
Tisza Blooming @ Willows Wept Review, Summer 2020
Agua Fria @ Flash-Frontier May 2020
A Little Sugar @ Boston Literary Magazine, April 2020
In the Round; Old Man Rocking; Snow Today @ Buddhist Poetry Review Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2020
Netting Fish; The Widow in Black @ Verse-Virtual, Volume 7 Number 3, April 2020
Post-Postmodern Pensées @ experiential-experimental-literature February 17, 2020
What’s in a Name @ FewerThan500 February 9, 2020
Lines; Wildlife @ Plum Tree Tavern, January 2020
Ozymandias Redux @ New Verse News January 30, 2020
Adopt a Highway; One More Town Too Far @ Blacktop Passages, Issue 6 January 29, 2020
Windows and Doors Mini-chapbook @ Origami Poems Project, January 2020
Faces of Posterity @ Front Porch Review, Volume 12, January 2020
In Dream @ Backchannels Journal, Issue 3, January 2020
Three poems: In the Treetops; The Shoes Sis Wore; Blooms @ Anti-Heroin Chic, November 2019
This Boy’s Life @ A Story in 100 Words, November 6, 2019
Stargazing @ Nine Muses Poetry, October 31, 2019
Eye See @ The Ekphrastic Review, September 30, 2019
When the Zombie Apocalypse Arrives; Applications of Hawking; The Cryonics; Eentsy Weentsy (4 poems) @ Winamop, September 2019
The Septuagenarian, @ Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, Fall/Winter 2019, Issue 11
Shape Shifters @ The Ekphrastic Review, September 15, 2019
New Skin; Weevils @ SurVision Magazine, Issue 5, August 2019
A Million Years @ One Sentence Poems, July 25, 2019
Four Senryu, @ Prune Juice: Journal of Senryu, Kyoka, Haibun, & Haiga, July 2019, Issue 28
Prayer to Everything @ First Literary Review – East, July 2019
With Earth Our Flesh, Water Our Blood @ New Verse News July 8, 2019
For the Record @ Clementine Unbound, June 4, 2019
In the Haze @ Work Literary Magazine, Issue 10.38, May 22, 2019
Conversation in Absentia @ Rat’s Ass Review, Summer 2019
Grace @ First Literary Review – East, May 2019
Armaments @ Muddy River Poetry Review, Issue #20, Spring 2019
senryu @ failed haiku: Journal of English Senryu, Vol. 4, Issue #41, Spring 2019
How to Tie Your Shoes @ Red Eft Review, February 15, 2019
The Utternuts @ Clockwise Cat, Issue 40
Hope a.k.a. Has (page 27) || The Aggrieved (page 31) @ Blue Collar Review, Winter 2018-2019
With Life @ Bards Against Hunger, Wisconsin Edition, 2018
Cranehand Song @ Blue Collar Review, Fall 2018
Enjoy @ Mused Literary Review, Vol. 12 #4, Winter 2018
Red Balloon at Christmas @ New Verse News December 25, 2018
Time-Lapse @ After the Pause, Issue 15 Winter 2018, p. ff (32)
Child of Yemen @ New Verse News November 24, 2018
Still-Life @ Avocet Weekly, October 21, 2018
The Couple; Walking Among Wolves @ Poppy Road Review October 10, 2018
Encounter on Effigy Hill @ Plum Tree Tavern September 12, 2018
A Short History of Cheerios @ Picaroon Poetry Issue 13, September 2018, p. 37
Ghost Flight; The Ferris Wheel @ Verse-Virtual September 2018
The Emeriti @ Mused Literary Review, Vol. 12 #2, Summer 2018
Oleg Sentsov: World Cup One-Man Team @ Poets Reading the News, June 22, 2018
A Summer Wink @ Perspectives Magazine, June 2018
Two Sticks; January June; Porch Light Tango @ Jellyfish Whispers June 12, 2018
Rudy!Rudy!Rudy! @ New Verse News June 7, 2018
Trending-Donald Doggerel; Bubbles @ Tuck Magazine May 23, 2018
Picker and Poet; Trail of Flowers @ Fourth & Sycamore May 8, 2018
Dear Mattel @ Poetry24 March 14, 2018
Poem and Prayer; Just Another Jesus; Kamikaze @ Verse-Virtual March 2018
She Was Pleading With Her Eyes @ New Verse News February 19, 2018
At Winter’s Solstice @ Founders Favourites Magazine, Issue 2, January 2018
Singing Woman @ Verse-Virtual January 2018
Inside Disney’s Hall of Presidents @ New Verse News December 21, 2017
Weavings @ Halcyon Days, Issue #8 December 21 2017
Whales Rising (page 86) || Intelligent Life (page 87) @ Civilized Beasts Volume 2, 2017
Primitive Life @ One Sentence Poems November 21, 2017
Devil on Third; Coming of Age (2 poems) @ Rat’s Ass Review, Winter 2017
3772 Piaf, A Minor Planet @ Chiron Review, Issue #108 Summer 2017
Under the Radar @ Bird’s Thumb, October 2017
Life Springs @ Front Porch Review, Vol. 9, October 2017
Wine @ Dime Show Review August 2017
Soon Now @ Autumn Sky Poetry Daily July 21, 2017
Last Meal; The Law of Perpetual Motion @ Outcast Poetry June 8, 2017
Unspent Energy @ Perspectives Magazine April 2017
The New Red @ Rat’s Ass Review, Such an Ugly Time Anthology, Spring 2017
No More Cream Puffs @ Writers Resist, Issue 15: March 9, 2017
The Ship of Fools @ New Verse News February 27, 2017
Sex, Wine, and the Hereafter @ Flash Fiction Magazine February 22, 2017
The Waiting Room @ Flash Frontier February 2017
18-Wheel Roulette (Plainsongs Award Poem) Plainsongs, Vol. XXXVII.2 Winter 2017
The Problem of Whiteness @ New Verse News December 26, 2016
My Fellows, To Spring; Hope Springs @ Verse-Virtual December 2016
Bulldozed; Prairie Burn @ Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine Fall/Winter 2016, p. 53-54
Sluggers; The Nesters; Aching for Honor; Saturday Morning With Children; My Witch Doctor Lover @ Verse-Virtual November 2016
Looking Straight at the Eclipse @ Right Hand Pointing Issue 103 Fall 2016
Anecdote to a Heartache @ New Verse News October 23, 2016
@Englyn Journal of Four-line Poetry Issue 4 October 2016 (three poems)
The Lives of Houses; In the Storm’s Eye @ Star 82 Review, Issue 4.3 August 2016
Superhero Grandpa @ Still Crazy Volume IX , Issue 2 July 2016
Family Feeling; The Lives of Stars; Pray Me No More; The Circumference of Hope @ Anima Issue 3 Summer 2016
@ Beechwood Review Vol. 1, July 2015 and Vol. 2, June 2016
Stopping at Mt. Hope Cemetery @ Shot Glass Journal May 2016
No Haiku @ Plum Tree Tavern March 27, 2016
Berta Caceras @ New Verse News March 5, 2016
Metamorphosis @ The Tule Review 2015
Modern Haiku – Poems Compiled 1981-2015
As the Permafrost Goes @ Verse-Virtual October 2015
Counting Rhyme @ New Verse News September 21, 2015
The Separation @ After the Pause Winter 2015, p. 63
A.K.A. @ Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, Vol. 26, No. 2 Summer 2015
Drink This @ Whirlwind Magazine Featured Poem June 20, 2015
@Shamrock Haiku Journal Issue 31 June 2015
@Chrysanthemum Issue 17 April 2015 p.30
Poem and Prayer @ Red Paint Hill Poetry Journal Issue 6 April 1, 2015
Photo Bomb @ Boston Literary Magazine Spring 2015
Spider of the Mind @ After the Pause Spring 2015, pp. 64-66
Small Business; Another Rant While Making His Rounds @ Work Literary Magazine Issues 6.19 and 6.25, Jan/Feb 2015
Sorry @ NEAT Issue 7 Winter 2014-2015, p. 43-44
Port Visit @ Outside In Literary and Travel Magazine Issue 18 October 2014
Psst, Bird Cam; Dinosaur Love or Boom Baby Boom; Summer’s Dream @ Verse-Virtual September 2014
To Another Yoke-and-Harness Incentive Plan @ The Stare’s Nest August 31, 2014
In Syria, Small Beds Lie Empty @ Poetry24 August 21, 2014
Is There a Translator in the House @ The Missing Slate June 8, 2014
Anodyne @ Apocrypha & Abstractions May 15, 2014
For Fashion Sake: Rana Plaza Remembered @ New Verse News April 27, 2014
Rest Stop at the BP; Last Words; Night Bus @ Otoliths Issue 32, February 1, 2014
What’s One Rhino @ Poetry24 January 21, 2014
Names Which Must Be Spoken @ Blast Furnace Volume 3 Issue 4 December 31, 2013
Time @ Curio Poetry Issue 10, 2013
Timeline @ About Place Journal Vol. 2 Issue 3, November 2013
Always @ Eunoia Review November 5, 2013
Night Crew @ HEArt Online November 4, 2013
Zombie Antidote @ Poetry24 November 1, 2013
Kamikaze; Caged; Seeing the World @ Verse Wisconsin Issue 112 October 2013
The Aster Keeper Upon His 65th; Reckless @ Northern Cardinal Review September 18/20, 2013
To End Hunger @ The New Verse News July 27, 2013
Register of Historic Places @ Lummox No. 2, 2013, p. 133
Facing the Mirror @ Still Crazy Volume VI Issue 2 July 2013
Kitchen Meditation; Moonlight and Metta @ Buddhist Poetry Review Issue 8 Spring 2013
Exotica @ Red Fez Issue 55, April 2013
Mirrors @ Bolts of Silk April 14, 2013
Found Poem @ Bohemia Vol. 3 No. 2 March 2013 p. 10
Among Her Possessions @ Brevity Poetry Review Issue 7 March 2013
Losing It @ Shot Glass Journal September 2012
Before East Towne Mall @ Verse Wisconsin Issue 109 July 2012 p. 12
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Picking Raspberries @ Still Crazy Volume IV, Issue 2 July 2012
Uninvited @ Muddy River Poetry Review Spring, 2012
Holy Ground @ San Pedro River Review Volume 4 No. 1 Spring 2012
Moonmilk @ Scissors and Spackle Issue 6, April 2012
The Dragon @ Red River Review February 2012
The Meddler’s Confession @ Quantum Poetry Magazine January 9, 2012
When You Say WIS-CON-SIN (lol) @ The New Verse News November 3, 2011
Reckonings: Choeung Ek @ Protestpoems.org May 2, 2011
Haiku Publications: Wind Chimes; Dragonfly; HIGH/COO Press—1981-83
Call to Prayer (page 1) || (page 2) || (page 3) @ The Lake Superior Review Volume 9 No. 1 Summer 1978
Pretty Shells (page 1) || (page 2) @ Pig Iron Issue 197
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