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The following linked poems have been curated online in literary journals and poetry blogs.

Blessings from the Char Sheila Na-Gig, Fall 2025

National Daughters Day Summer 2025 Cool Beans Lit

An Exercise in Futility Verse Virtual

Peanut Butter Prayers, Storyteller Poetry Review - Easter, April 2025

Learning How to Eat Lobster with Grandpa, Storyteller Poetry Review - Tributes, April 2025

Love Story Series, February 18, 2025 - Five poems at Storyteller Poetry Review: Denial, Strolling the Boulevard, I Will Be Your Partner Forever, All That I Am Not, Morning Ritual

Letting Go of Slack

Storyteller of the Week, January 17, 2025 - Five poems at Storyteller Poetry Review: Disco Chic, Waiting for Death, I Am Not an Ass Kisser, Sharing Cream Scone Secrets, Stepmother

Two poems at Verse Virtual: Antipasto Playground, Comparison

Algorithm

The Gift of Water

Belly Dancing in a Brown Sweatsuit

They Came for Sangria and Never Left

Benefits and Drawbacks of Lollygagging

Sunday Drive

Four poems at Lothlorien Poetry Journal: Before and After, Irish Twins, My Hero, Godmother Sacked

Ambition

Two poems at Sparks of Calliope: Landslide, Stage Fright

Things Easier than Marriage to Ike

Ski Trip

Morning Ritual

Elliptical

Don’t Let My Wrinkles Fool You

Lighthouse

Spring Wannabe

Eye for an Eye

Two poems at Sparks of Calliope: A Moment of Silence for the Salad Bar, Hands

Coming Home

Imitation Fisherman

Spelling Things Out

My Singer Contracted COVID

Conflicted

A Magnified Life

What an Assault Rifle Cannot Do

Legacy

The Last Gift

Unwelcome Estate Sale