Poems

PUBLISHED:

"Getaway, with Chronic Illness," Wishbone Words (Issue 15, May 2025) -- £4 but 15% off with code WWFamFrnd15

• From their Bluesky profile: Wishbone Words is "An online publisher of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, flash, translations, art, and photography from chronically ill, neurodiverse, & disabled creatives"

“My Body Says No,” The Periwinkle Pelican (Issue 2, p. 25, April 2025) (free to access)

• • From their website: "The Periwinkle Pelican Lit is a small labour of love, an indie passion project, and an ode to writers, poets, and dreamers everywhere."

"Little Sparks of Love" in miniMAG (Issue 141: horus, pages 7-8, March 14, 2025) (free to access until Sept 14, 2025)

• • Note that access to all miniMAG issues is free for 6 months, and then issues are archived for paid subscribers only, so this poem will be free to access & download from March 14 - September 14.  From their website: "you could, like, buy a month and download them all, then cancel your sub before the second billing cycle ... i wouldn’t even be mad"

  • An earlier version of this poem is published in HNDL Magazine (Issue 11: Light, April 17, 2025) (free to access) 

    • • From their website: "HNDL (Highlighted Neurodivergent & Disabled Life) is an online and print magazine featuring the work of neurodivergent, disabled, chronically, and mentally ill creatives, writers, artists, dopamine dressers, and small business owners."

"Eau-de-Intimacy" in Micromance Magazine (March 11, 2025) (free to access)

• • From their website: "Micromance Magazine is a new kind of literary journal dedicated to a beautiful marriage between Romance and Flash Fiction"

"Love Letter to My ME/CFS, Long Covid Body" in FLARE Magazine (special Valentine's Day Issue, February 14, 2025) (free to access)

• • FLARE is a magazine for chronically ill and disabled writers

"Existence While Hoping for a Cure (#MillionsMissing)" 

• • Published in Lombardi Voices (Volume 21, Winter 2024), pages 42-43. The preceding link is free to access, and this volume of Lombardi Voices can also be purchased for Kindle ($8) or in paperback ($10) on Amazon, with proceeds going to support the Georgetown Lombardi Arts and Humanities Program's Expressive Writing Program.  

  • From their website: "The Georgetown Lombardi Arts & Humanities Program at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital promotes cura personalis, which means care for the whole person, for patients, family members, caregivers, medical staff, students, and community members."

  • Also posted on the #MEAction Pillow Writers website (free to access)

"One Disabled Person to Another" (free to access); Link to download the screenreader edition

• • Published in Kaleidoscope: Exploring the Experience of Disability through Literature and the Fine Arts (Issue 90, January 2025)

  • First shared in the Thunder & Lightning Poetry Collective's zine Interdependence: Integral to Disability Justice (August 2024) 

"For Whom These Wonders?"

• Shared in the Thunder & Lightning Poetry Collective's zine Interdependence: Integral to Disability Justice (August 2024) (free to access)

• The Thunder & Lightning Poetry Collective is a group of disabled BIPOC and/or Queer poets

"My Local Life"

• Shared in the Forget ME not Arts & Crafts Exhibit 2024, which was a fundraiser for ME/CFS research (May 2024; now defunct)

PHOTO ART:

• "Another Kind of Medicine" in Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine (December 20, 2024)

POEMS POSTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA:

• “Hydrangea Postcard Poem to Save Medicaid,” Instagram, (April 25, 2025)

• “Tulip Postcard Poem to Save Social Security and Medicaid,” Instagram, (April 13, 2025)

• “Calendula Postcard Poem to Save Social Security and Medicaid,” Instagram, (April 4, 2025)