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I just found out that Blue Heron Review’s editor, Cristina Norcross, has nominated my poem for Best in the Net. She published Holy ritual in BHR Issue 20 / Fall 2025. Here’s a link to that issue: https://blueheronreview.com/bhr-issue-20-fall-2025/

Here’s the poem:

Holy ritual

we eat star flesh
and drink the shine of suns

actually, we do
every day
our bodies are built
of ash leftover from solar explosions
swept into tidy piles
tethered in orbits
that pass us through rains and winds
of pure energy
flung out of this one star

energy caught in a chemical web
by biological engines
absorbed by mobile processors
whom we in turn absorb
all this to serve
peanut butter sandwiches
with a glass of milk

just today
hold up your lunch to the heavens
and witness this
as a miracle
it is
it is a miracle
we are children of stars
we are nourished by stars

thus it is
I am a miracle
you are a miracle

Just released in Thin Places (https://thin-places.org/2026/09/29/issue-three-september-2026/), Issue 3, “field”

field

field                 

There are cows and calves in a dusty field just
greening
in the young rains.
I will meet you there
in the shade
of the hushing cottonwoods.

I won’t run.
We don’t run.
But the shadows
of the swimming leaves
slip over our hands.
We have quiet hands.
My hands sit quiet.

Sometimes the horses roll in the pasture
deviling the dust
hooves waving.

You know the dusty field
and the shadows
of the old cottonwoods.

I came to writing after a full career as a forest ecologist in the Pacific Northwest. My poems have appeared in Blue Heron Review, HEART, The Rumpus, Front Porch Review, and Halfway Down the Stairs, among other publications. I have two chapbooks:  Woman and Horse and The Dream of Falling.

I have a history degree and one in forest ecology. My husband and I moved to New Mexico in 2021. Now I live in the desert. It’s still a surprise five years later.

Currently, I’m reading poems around New Mexico. Maybe if you find yourself in the neighborhood?

What’s new? LOTS

I’ve had several poems accepted by journals recently. So keep an eye out in Thin Places, The Lake, and Packingtown Review. The editor of the Blue Heron Review also just let me know she’d nominated my poem “Holy Ritual” for Best of the Net.