Poetry
What Has Happened
Mamazine, Fall 2005
Postpartum Sex
Mamazine, Fall 2005
Kalliope: A Journal of Women's Literature and Art, Vol. 24, No. 1, Spring 2002
The Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, Vol. 3, No. 2, Fall/Winter 2001
Lullaby
Austin Arts Downtown, Vol. 7, No. 4, May/June 2001
Nerve, May 2001
Austin Arts Downtown, Vol. 7, No. 3, March-April 2001
Feminist Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2, Summer 2000
Reprinted in Slipstream 20: Our Twentieth Year: 1980-2000, Summer 2000
Granny's First Orgasm
STILETTO, October 1999
Karamu, Vol. 16, No. 2, Spring 1999
Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, No. 11, Spring/Summer 1998
Prairie Schooner, Vol. 71, No. 2, Summer 1997
Prairie Schooner, Vol. 71, No. 2, Summer 1997
Fear
IRIS: A Journal about Women, Issue 34, Winter/Spring 1996
Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, No. 7, Fall/Winter 1995
Painted Bride Quarterly, Issue 56, Fall 1994
Another Chicago Magazine, Vol. 27, Spring 1994
Housekeeping
My sister asks if
I have fed the house.
I hate this question. Every day,
I am afraid of this question.
I don't know what the house eats. My sister
doesn't know either, but we keep trying,
working in shifts. The one
who's not feeding is the reminder which is
worse. She has to sit and worry
that the feeder will do it wrong, will
make the house hungrier.
We know what hunger
feels like when it pulls. We know
how the vacuum cleaner feels on our eyes
when we use it to suck out
the possibility of tears.