Poet and Traveler
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Poems

A few poems from print and online journals…Let me know what you think!

Rome! Where many of these poems were written.

Rome! Where many of these poems were written.

From The Davids Inside David…

Gravel: “All of Us Running”

Harpoon Review: "Caravaggio Copying Caravaggio"

SOFTBLOW: “Transition,” “The Missing Century,” “Then I Had the Idea”

Listen to Garrison Keillor read two of my poems on The Writer’s Almanac (May, 19): “Ambition (first published in the wonderful SWIMM)” and “My First Face!” Note that Keillor reads a bit of poetry news before he gets to the poem. That’s nice too.

Diode Poetry Journal: “Breaching the Surface,” “Descending Mt. Everest


The Ekphrastic Review: “The Marble Faun and Other Anecdotes of Excess”

The Ekphrastic Review: “Never a Mary”

The Indianapolis Review: “The History of the First Holy Door,” The Male Gaze

Matador Review: “After the Flood,” “The Next David”

8 Poems: “Original Idols”

The After Happy Hour Review: “Reading Sontag” 

He’s like that.

He’s like that.


And his eyes met mine (in the Keats Shelley House in Rome).

And his eyes met mine (in the Keats Shelley House in Rome).

From River Electric With Light and Bathsheba Transatlantic

Superstition Review: “The Past as Beautiful as I,” “Etude for Beginners”

Valparaiso Review: “Postcard from the Expedition”

Three poems from River Electric With Light on The Saturday Poetry Series: “A Worship of Rivers,” “Third Version,” and “Saying Jerusalem.”

Four poems from Superstition Review: “Near Death Experience,” “A Mirage of Shore,” “Reprisal,” “Revising Prophesy”