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A Recap of 2025

Selected poems penned or published this year, or included just because I felt like it

A non-exhaustive (somewhat adult-themed) list

Pronouns are hard – Any Monster – Eye to the Telescope **

Two older people on the woman end of the rainbow spectrum hang out with rocks, find them hard, which was expected, possibly pre-ordained, and apparently not very publishable – Atlas

Older woman finds ageing with an older man hard – the view – Strange Horizons **

§ Women are Mythic (but you knew that) – The Women of Myth (chapbook) – Island of Wak-Wak ***

Myths are delicious (but you won’t admit to that) – Menu from the Fairy Tale Restaurant – Defenestration **

Cryptids are cool; bridges that collapse are not – Chessie: three portraits – SpecPoVerse * or **

Bridges that collapse suck – Key – The Hopkins Review (2024)

Alien plants are creepy and cool, bring me more catalogues! – Today’s Featured Plants – Eye to the Telescope **

Ferns in mist resemble grammar – maidenhair – Nature of Our Times (online 2024; print anthology 2025)

Orchids are particularly cool, possibly sword-like – The Orchid – Sublimation **

Poetry and fox pee are fleeting – Ephemera – Little Patuxent Review

Chocolate is deadly – Methylxanthine – SFPA Valentine’s Reading (originally Mad Poets Review)

Toe mold on an ogre is beautiful – A Fine Mold – Star*Line *

Histopathology is out of this world – Pathology Report – Star*Line **

Dissecting things is like writing poetry (wait, scratch that, reverse it) – Taxidermy – SFPA Halloween Reading (originally Star*Line)

Math is | Maths are: weird and a little bit gay – 0,1 (and other states) – Orion’s Beau **

You suck, pandemics suck, and no one listens to me (you should, but you won’t) – The Cassandra Effect – The Future Fire **

Rivers once caught fire, might do so again (I know what you’ve done to the EPA, and it’s not cool) – Cuyahoga – Tributaries (Fourth River)

I once was a hero. Now look what you’ve done – When you are supposed to be a hero – Star*Line **

You need lots and lots of wings to hero flock in the middle of the public health apocalypse – The Structure of Flight – Stebbins Medal Performance

Girls can fly (Oh, but how they can fly!) – Winged Girl – Star*Line **

Robin shows up in the middle of winter like a bad prophecy – Roses in Winter, Robin in Snow – The Calendula Review (This is 2025 after all…)

Wings are challenging – Icarus – Illumen **

Bird takes a break – Rest – The Calendula Review

Spaceflight is long and dark – Interstellar Spaces – Abyss & Apex **

The signal is diminish— {{event horizon}} – Snow on the Interstellar Netfeed – SpecPoVerse *

Catching stars wasn’t the best idea – Asking Questions of the Stars – Illumen **

§ The stars are coming to destroy us – what the moons told me – SpecPoVerse *

I’m stuck in space with a diva of a parrot. But seriously, where did I leave my unicorn? – What Noah Knew – Project Abeona **

Unicorns actually exist…and could use a dentist – Tooth – James Gunn’s Ad Astra **

§ Lots of dinosaurs died when an asteroid struck modern-day Mexico, but we got some great myths, an airplane, and a fancy bird on everyone’s life list – Pterosaur – Strange Horizons **

§ Volcano screams (as they/I do) – Museum at the End of the World – Orion’s Belt **

It’s the end of the world, did you guess which monster? – Monster at the End of the World – SpecPoVerse*

–> Why yes, I have been writing a lot of End of the World poems this year, thanks for asking (c’ya 2025…don’t let the door hit you on the way out)

Follow the glowing light – Id, or the Relic – View from Atlantis **

My Mum is Trapped in Stained Glass – Sainte-Chapelle – Loch Raven Review (this can feel like a daily occurrence)

My Mum is a Spec Poet Too – Mage Nuns (which she won’t let me submit–she thinks her poetry isn’t good enough)

–> Her mage nuns are cool. They wear red. (It’s a strong color.)

Guide:

* SFPA Dwarf Stars eligible

** SFPA Rhysling eligible / SFWA Hugo eligible

*** SFPA Elgin eligible

§ featured by the author

{bold} available to read (or hear) for free