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Dymphna, Please

A darkly funny confessional poem in which Saint Dymphna becomes the exhausted witness to spirals, exes, hyperfixations, and the very modern theater of unraveling.

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Hey Nurse!

A narrative poem about burnout, devotion, institutional exhaustion, and the strange afterlife of being needed by everyone except yourself.

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Narrative Note: Grief

A darkly satirical poem in which nursing documentation becomes the container for death, family devastation, and the impossible administrative fiction of “stable.”

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Chart Me Correctly This Time

A poem of institutional fury and hard-earned authority, confronting the polished language of the “industry” with the lived knowledge it too often tries to overwrite.

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A Rosary in the Glovebox

Written in the tradition of George Ella Lyon’s “I Am From,” this poem assembles a self from rosaries, winter, food, nursing, and inheritance, tracing the sacred and bruised geography of a life.

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“The Palms STill Stand. Crisp Silhouettes against a Hazy Sky, tall as guilt and just as thin. They line the driveway in symmetrical grief, as if trying to offer shade to something that can’t be cooled. Everything here is sun-bleached and wind-chapped, held together by spider webs and memory. The breeze tastes like eucalyptus and the air smells like dust that used to be skin.”

Noncompliant: A Sunglassed Elegy From Camarillo