Once there was an ocean here with the name
of an ancient body. See the markings
on the stone walls and imagine its fullness.
Now only a lake remains that one day
shall be a vast memory. My doctor reports
that tests reveal I am dry as the moon’s craters.
Living where things evaporate just like that,
I reply, it is no wonder. One of my organs
has in fact already given way to drought.
When they removed it, they said it was tough
as a deflated football. And that my body
will be an abandoned sea if I’m not careful.
My work has appeared in the Valparaiso Poetry Review, Hotel Amerika, 3rd Wednesday, the American Journal of Poetry, The Shore, Poetica Review, JMWW, Emerge Literary Journal, and Stone Poetry Quarterly, among others. Also, I will have a piece in a forthcoming issue of the I-70 Review. I was a semifinalist for the 2022 Morgenthau Prize sponsored by Passenger Books, and have had two poems nominated for a Pushcart. I was a founding poetry editor of Quarterly West and twice a recipient of a Utah Original Writing Competition Award. While I have lived in Colorado, California, and Utah where I studied writing at major universities and held fellowships and teaching positions, I am originally from New York City and still consider myself a New Yorker in many respects. Currently, I live in Salt Lake City with my wife.
Euphony Journal 