Under the Bedroom Skylight

A sonnet with palindromic rhymes: keep/peek, emit/time, wolf/flow, loops/spool, part/trap, doom/mood, and peels/sleep. The first line gestures at this constraint while exploring cosmic insignificance and intimate connection.

First poem in Nowhere at Home, Penteract Press, 2023

As my Three Children Tidy Up their Rooms

An anagrammatic transformation between a prose poem and sonnet. Both parts contain exactly 560 characters—the same letters arranged to tell two different stories about chaos and mathematical precision.

The sonnet appears in Nowhere at Home, Penteract Press, 2023

Autumn's End

A 3 1/3-ina—a tritina in which each stanza features an additional, shorter line whose end word is the initial third of the previous end word. Possibly the first of this form in English.

Appears in Nowhere at Home, Penteract Press, 2023

CAT G[enome]

A found bilingual sonnet discovered in the genome of Cinnamon, an Abyssinian cat. Uses only nucleotide letters (A,C,G,T)—the minimal alphabet necessary to spell CAT and GATA.

Appears in Nowhere at Home, Penteract Press, 2023

Reconfigured Visions

These three sonnets are anagrams of each other.

The second sonnet features palindromic rhymes and preceding heteronyms