publishing History

Cholla needles

Issue 81

August 2023

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Call Me Brackets

Issue 11 Call Me Out

pages 91-93

December 2023

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V Press LC

2023 Running with Water

January 2024

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About:

I want to write clear poetry that gets to the point and breaks down boxes that society places people in, hopefully in the process reaching empathy.

Sample of published poems

Needle Drowning

as the needle hits her vein

she feels

glowing within

parents embracing

from behind,

boyfriend kissing her

on a warm summer night,

baby nuzzling

into her thigh.

she is

a gaunt skeleton

dipping her bony finger

in a swirling black pool,

a spinal ridge shivering

corpse

drowning in turbid waves

screaming for life ring.

The Beetle

the crushed brown carapace

screams with silent pain.

splintered into

a hundred broken shards,

flattened lifeless flakes

trembling in the wind,

toffee pieces

cracked and brittle,

clinging to the boy’s soles,

crushing further

to fine powder

the living,

breathing creature,

wrath swelling within me

bubbling and red.

Contact

quintjh@yahoo.com