Psalms, Yawps, and Howls is a writing website of Daniel Eugene Wilcox, a writer, pebble-poet,
and kickabout mutant traveler of the mind, human history, the world, and (stretching into deep time) the cosmos.
My wandering, wondering lines have appeared in many magazines including Contemporary American Voices, vox poetica, Dead Snakes, Word Riot, Centrifugal Eye,
Write Room, Enhance, Static Movement, Counterexample Poetics, and Unlikely Stories IV.
"I've known rivers...my soul has grown deep like the rivers."* Langston Hughes
--
Yes, travel rivers of the world
and rivers of the soul
and rivers of the mind.
Selah.
--
AUGUST 2023:
Presence transcends
Drowned in family tragedy, despairing, distraught--
that morning earlier;
thus down encumbered,
he came to worship meeting, but not speaking
of his family’s severe circumstance, kept hidden;
But in the midst
of open expectant communion, Transcendent Light
shown forth in a stranger’s sudden
a cappella spiritual chorus--
a deep songing deepening within;
intense meaning lifted us gathered in communion--
vivid encouraging Hope;
That sacred chorus didn’t take away our shattered glass
lives, nor end many distraught
circumstances and tragedies--
but
Oh, what Hope fulled within.
--Dan Wilcox
July 2023:
a beachcomber of Beauty
a why-ing kid
up
with go-vision eyes stretching
and out,
rambling
meandering rocky-rubble farm roads
and roaming over creeks, through timber strands,
brief forest, and out across pasture lands--
I discovered beautiful bits and lumps that matter
--pebbles, stones, and rocks
(especially when wet)
and odd ugly ones, to boot
on fun nature hikes
wide-eyed adventures--
outside of our minor village
in 50’s southeast Nebraska;
Put those bright objects, small hunks, in my pockets
where they lay heavy
or in my overloaded baggish hands,
carrying them home,
my free treasures of early/pre-youth
enlarging my throng of wonder
in my pine-walled basement room--
Yes, I became a rock-mongrel mutt;
And later found others, mostly bits of minerals,
my boyhood keepers
in the Black Hills, Rockies, Sierras,
and a small chunk of copper ore
from an open pit mine in Bisbee, Arizona,
and a few parched white bones from
a long-ago bison jump
near Lame Dear, Montana.
I became a boarder of pebbles, quartzes, feldspars, agates,
granite bits, and mica, sea-glass, iron pirate,
and who-know unknowns,
and fascinating shells and other sea life from 3 coasts--
a beachcomber of minor Beauty,
a voyager through this washed-up-n-down of life,
Adrift explorer, searcher, curious wanderer.
But now in receding elder age, mutated
with a stroke of bad luck,
I hesitently hobble about with a rolling walker alone
along Pismo sand dunes and Morro Rock shores
still searching, seeking for more special riff-raff,
to add to my ‘treasured things,’
our rooms’ shelves;
Here they still lay waiting
inert for another
I/It encounter…
Oh, the aesthetic depth of minor things,
bits that matter which sometime
transcend
into present
WONDER!
Yes, objects of beauty that exist in Deep Time…
in not too many years,
I will leave them behind;
and those long-enduring things will
exist others of the future.
And this long rumination of my life-long collections
Reminds me of a pebbled thought of beauty for present living--
We humans get washed up
on this shore of existence,
surrounded and crowded
by things and circumstances
we didn’t choose--
We all get roughed down and polished by adversity…
But the wonder of our human brain’s neural plasticity--
is we all get to choose
how we respond to life’s circumstances,
harsh trials, and horrific tragedies--
Yes, until our death, we get to create anew
Each moment,
If only briefly
--
Conclusion:
What has washed up on your shore today?
What beautiful pebbled moment of wonder?
Or what irritant, ache, troubling circumstance, or tragedy
has gotten lodged in your
oyster mind and heart?
What can you do to turn this troubled moment into a precious
gem/pebble/stone/agate?
Dan Wilcox
UPDATED 7/19/23
JANUARY 2023:
Awake at dawn
upending my camping mug
for a drink,
at dawn,
but no water slurp;
almost empty--
except for a gray web’s net
rim to rim;
below, a dark spider
silent dwelling
--
APRIL 2022:
Retreaded, not yet board and carded
I’m retreaded but road-tired,
Rolling across cantankerous land
Though, thank heavens—knock around
On pavement
And redwood,
Not yet sent off to a ‘board and card’ mansion,
Rehearsing...
You know where decks and bingo
“Was a dog…” chips or
Markers
Define the tokened measures of your/our life--
Or where, too
Reclining and breathing entertain you/us.
Or tipped-wobbly with 4-wheels and unfeeling-ed feet
I walker about at Morro Strand beach-coast
Staggering in wonder...
Here
Until my brief spark of awed experience embers out
Gone...
Yet
This cosmos Ultimately
Transcendent
-
Dan Wilcox
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FEBRUARY 2022:
Meditation on Shimmering Palms
On more days and nights, an invalid,
In pain and loss, I often just want to go…
Unconscious;
But then, again, I stare out
To the wind and sun
From our upstairs
Window;
There tower above, 2 lone palms
In sight from my weak haven,
Swaying in that blue expanse
In a lively coastal wind,
Their mop-tops of slender fronds
Shimmering
Like flashing magnesium flares
From brilliant reflecting
Sunshine.
Those two undulating sentinels dance
over/above my fading consciousness,
Ailing awareness--
Unconscious guards,
While I lay here filled with sacred
Remembrance, mindful
Of my former festive living,
Becoming, and doing….
Yes, the wonder of being a human primate
Living, but finite, so brief, and this
Gift, this Present
Shimmering--
Then we’re gone.
Dan Wilcox,
the mutant poet:-)
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JANUARY 2022:
FLOATERS--a poetic reflection on coastal warm days, shortly before winter
I’m spent to despair,
For lost hope yearning,
Tried for years to rescue others
Caught in tangled news hours
Of hellish hate, intolerance, despair,
Wrong right-leftist spinners,
Those creedalists and secularists
Both deniers of the morally real--
Their abyss of modern sheol winter
Stop!
Abandon this somber cellared lament!
Instead,
My sweetheart suggests, Let’s visit
A coastal winery,
Say, I do,
We do.
Driving along a winding river valley,
We arrive, expectant,
Hoping for respite;
Then, listening to soft music,
Sipping small glasses of moscato and merlot
Enjoying a glad lackadaisical day,
Mellow and casual,
Light of heart,
Carefree, contented
In California’s autumn’s wonder
Below tall sycamores and elms;
After Thanksgiving before winter;
We bask in 86-degree warmth,
When unexpectedly a slightly curled
Leaf floats down before
My eyes,
And lands gently on my lap,
A died wonder for us to behold;
Then another drifter
Lets go from a large limb above,
A deep rust-brown leaf spattered
With light tan highlights and vein-lines,
Descends in front of us,
Swaying back and forth,
Languid,
Lightly
Floating down
Inches away from us,
Landing nearby
On the lawn;
I lay with my head way back,
Gazing up to the sky's azure blue,
As other gifts let go every few moments
From high above,
Swinging wide and graced,
Falling beauty in slow motion,
Floating, swaying;
I realize—here, now--
With this Present--
I could die free, released.
Dan Wilcox
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October 2021:
Hearts-full, Not location or creed
But Evangelicals live for US First
They're group-egotists, of that proud sort
Water piped in from Mono Reservoir
Lush grass, high-tech, enlarged houses and store;
But down below, poor refugees get Walled out
Live in patched together plastic tents,
Preyed upon by ruthless cartel killers;
Near their shack and Jesus church of prayer
There peasants, Manuel and Miriam grow
Food on their small acre of stony ground,
Open kind actions, smiles, warm with zest and care;
Their hearts-wide, simple lives touch others here.
Not Evangelicals! those proud braggers
Lost from love’s generous kind country.
--
MAY 2021:
Flighting Surprise
In my morning mug
Cold milk, washed blue berries
Dark and delicious
Lay waiting for another swig
Wait; what’s that?
Adhering--a wispy white feather
Or more briefly:
flighting surprise
in my morning mug--
adhering to wet blue berries
a wispy white feather
--
humming attack
wearing my fiery red shirt
for Christmas, I open our
sliding glass door;
sudden jolt in front
of my startled face--
a flash of feathers hum-buzzes,
darts within inches of me;
but away it flits left
back to that flowering bush
along our fence--
me a reject
--
side of the road
gray shadowed mail box
overwhelmed green, red-purple
bloomed jungle wonder
--
Twilight: Crossing Shimmering Streams into Dusk and Stars
--
fall back to autumn
treetops blazing gold
with the last light of this day--
we lift our eyes
--Dan Wilcox
In the Light
January 2021:
Color Me Fiery Intense Red
bidingTImeabiding
A Psalm of Late Life
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Color Me Fiery Intense Red
As a kid, expressive, creative, rambunctious,
something of a wild card
long into adulthood
I loved vibrant Green--
for abundant life, for exuberant energy, vividly alive
for beauty like in colors, emerald or jade,
for the natural world from creek to patch of woods
behind our house on the edge of Adams village,
to verdant forest green glens of the Sierras, Sequoia and Yosemite
But--
then, suddenly, unexpectedly, without conscious why;
spontaneous, impulsively one day in middle life,
I awoke
not liking green anymore…
viewing green instead as dull, insipid,
sickening, repetitious, odd,
over-done, humdrum…
Color me fiery Red--
riveting, intense, striking sparks of light
cardinal, crimson, scarlet burst into my eyes and consciousness
—passionate, dazzling, blazing, heated, different…
as in exploding firework sky rockets,
as pulsing red coals in a bonfire,
as an amazing psychedelic quilt by my sweetheart
like an Impressionistic painting, luminous in our house
to ruby red lava in Hawaii’s volcano, intense sunsets,
and Utah’s red rock
Red forever
--Dan Wilcox
September 2020:
a time for…
In the fall a time for springing
childhood,
festivals of Monet-splashed leaves
that my sister and I raked and piled high
in the deep ditch in front
and jumped down into,
and our large garden behind the parsonage
with pumpkins, melons, and withered corn rows...
and lightning bugs on the wane,
flashing on and off
full of fall...
--
A Psalm of Late Life
Pessimist of my oldering years
Preyed upon by lamentable loss
I find no balmy psalms to lyre
But after discovered liars
Only this harp
of yawps and howls,
I pray for transcendence,
This my modern yelled holler
My psalm of life end's exit
Dance in this sorrowing starred night
--
bidingTimeabiding
bite my teeth on famous lines
a hole lot of fragmented shells;
hunger hollows within--
deepening abyss
of lost longing
lone-ranging, reigning the distance
of a round heartless night
of a round heart-last light
lane-ranging, raining the day-stance
of last longing
steepening a-bless
fulness hallows within--
a whole lot of fragranced shalls;
bide my heart on famous lines
--
August 2020:
bolder utah
utah boulders
eye widening rock
pastels bold in harvest's sun--
basalt garden wonder
--
at the park's bat box
my grandson scooping up handfuls
of dust
and swinging it loose--
fogged clouds
lighted by sunshine
that disperse
back to cleated ground
--
gull wings
gull wings
lightly spraying over gray clod fields
6-year drought--
so 'irrigating'!
--
In Every Crisis
When flailed, blind-sided,
Going down fast in
A basket abyss shrivel of worth-loss
And hope fails all drowned,
Do we launch deeper into the Deep?
Do we weep,
Do we shrive?
Thrive?
For in every crisis
Chry-sal-is*
--Dan Wilcox
*From crawler to butterfly--chrysalis
Even in the worst, most evil events, each of us still has the difficult possibility of heeding Viktor Frankl’s shocking words about their horrific experiences in Auschwitz Concentration Camp:
“Between stimulus [even trying to survive at Auschwitz!] and response
there is a space.
In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
“As we see it, an analogous relationship between the realm of human freedom and a realm superior to man is quite imaginable, so that man is endowed with free will...”
Viktor E. Frankl
“(26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997 was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and a Holocaust survivor, of Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Kaufering and Türkheim. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy (literally "healing through meaning") a meaning-centered school of psychotherapy…part of existential and humanistic psychology theories. He is the author of over 39 books; he is most noted for his best-selling book Man's Search for Meaning based on his experiences in various Nazi concentration camps…
In 1941 he married his first wife Tilly Grosser, who was a station nurse at the Rothschild hospital. Soon after they were married, she became pregnant but they were forced to abort the child. Tilly died in the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. His father Gabriel died in the Terezin concentration camp (Theresienstadt) in 1942. His mother and brother, Walter, were both killed in Auschwitz
Bio from Wikipedia
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For a list of published poems down below, skip this
Brief Bio Side:
How did I become a mutant with a red walker?
Got struck with bad stroke of bad luck 4 years ago, shortly after returning with my sweetheart from a 12,000 mile Ram camper van trip to the heartland of the U.S. and the Great Lakes. Plenty of scenic hiking, history-learning, photo-taking, cusine-enjoying. So many
beautiful natural scenes, historical places, colorful lighthouses and quilting stores!
Would you believe, we encountered 3 weeks of stormy weather in May and June?
About May the 24th I encountered a dense snow storm in western Colorado, gripped knuckle-hard my Ram steering wheel because of dangerous side-winds in eastern Colorado, barely missed 2 tornados in Kansas by about 5 minutes, but got severe lightning all about me.
And survived coat-cold weather in Michigan in June. Hit by heavy hail coming into Duluth, Minnesota.
And it rained, rained, rained--especially in Missouri.
However, we loved the trip:-)
Now I am virtually stuck here looking out at the summer fogged gloom of the Central Coast of California, at our plum-heavy tree, our 2 rambunctious cats, the Sphinx and Selah.
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October 2019:
A Poetic Debacle of the American News
May 2019:
trembled
First pub. in Stylus Poetry Journal
April 2019:
playing blues
March 2019:
I became a beachcomber of beauty
February 2019:
El Paso
First pub. in Unlikely Stories IV
http://infiniteoceanoflightandlove.blogspot.com/2019/02/el-paso-rallys-political-contradictions.html
Alluded Fractures
A Twist of Words
First pub. in Counterexample Poetics
January 2019:
my gramma's beheading like the results of Dort
September 2018:
mused moments in nature
including
side of the road mailbox
california dazing
January 2018:
Lemons, "Pineapples" and Mexico
(for my dad)
October 2017:
MORNING GLORY
http://infiniteoceanoflightandlove.blogspot.com/2017/10/morning-glory.html
connudrumed Clockwise Cat
starbacked
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/59489337/klox-and-katz-ink
October 2016:
a haiku, dripping rain vox poetica
http://voxpoetica.com/dripping-rain-drizzles/
December 2015:
bidingTimeabiding Dead Snakes
http://deadsnakes.blogspot.com/2015/12/daniel-wilcox-three-poems.html
Poem for My Dad Lightwaveseeker
Deaf to Death
http://infiniteoceanoflightandlove.blogspot.com/2015/12/personal-two-poems-for-my-dad.html
September 2015:
Ricochet Dead Snakes
First pub. Yes Poetry
End of a Rope
First pub. The New Verse News
http://deadsnakes.blogspot.com/2015/09/daniel-wilcox-two-poems.html
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August 2015:
The Signal of the Flag
http://deadsnakes.blogspot.com/2015/08/daniel-wilcox-two-poems.html
The Wind Blew Away the Young
(Dedicated to Kurt Vonnegut)
First pub. in Mad Swirl
July 2015:
One Dog Night Dead Snakes
First pub. in Unlikely Stories 2.0
Film Over Our Eyes
First pub. in Camel Saloon
Juxtaposition
First pub. in Camel Saloon
April 2015:
Gazing on Gaza Contemporary American Voices
earstopper
First pub. in The Write Room
our 'checkered' past
https://contemporaryamericanvoices.wordpress.com/2015/04/
February 2015:
The Modern Covenant Dead Snakes
First pub. in The Cerebral Catalyst
Iraqi Temples
First pub. in The November 3rd Club
On Visiting Hemingway's Mansion
First pub. in The Rogue Poetry Review
http://deadsnakes.blogspot.com/2015/02/daniel-wilcox-three-poems.html
Moon River Poetry Pacific
First pub. in Ascent Aspirations
horse trailer
First pub. in lyrical passion poetry
http://poetrypacific.blogspot.com/2015/02/2-poems-by-daniel-wilcox.html
November 2014:
The Road to Elsewhere Fish Food Magazine
October 2014:
RELEASE OF KINDLE VERSION OF THE FEELING OF THE EARTH
August 2014:
The Pull-Out Coyote vox poetica
http://voxpoetica.com/pull-out-coyote/
dark cliff walls Three Line Poetry
http://threelinepoetry.com/issue.php?id=27&issue=27
July 2014:
If you haven't checked out any of my other creative websites, hark over to them:
http://www.selahriver.com/ Social and Spiritual and Personal Poems
http://lightwaveseeker.weebly.com/ More Poems and Stories, Light in the Darkness
http://lastthings.weebly.com/ Speculative/Science Fiction Poems and Stories
May 2014:
1967 Dead Snakes
http://deadsnakes.blogspot.com/2014/05/daniel-wilcox-three-poems.html
Use Your Head
First pub. in Unlikely Stories IV
Face-Overs
First pub. in Mouse Tales Press
JANUARY 2014:
THE FEELING OF THE EARTH
A Speculative Novel of the Past and the Future
In 2013:
Short story, "The Gift," in Scattered Hearts: An Anthology
and available on the website
November 2013:
Film Over Our Eyes Camel Saloon
http://thecamelsaloon.blogspot.com/2013/11/film-over-our-eyes.html
October 2013:
Juxtaposition Camel Saloon
http://thecamelsaloon.blogspot.com/2013/10/juxtaposed.html
September 2013:
The Dog's Bite...in Syria Dead Snakes
First pub. in The Recusant, UK
Gum Up
First pub. in Poydras Review
http://deadsnakes.blogspot.com/2013/09/daniel-wilcox-two-poems.html
August 2013:
Retreaded Poetry Pacific
http://poetrypacific.blogspot.com/2013/08/1-poem-by-daniel-wilcox.html
July 2013:
Nail Holes Enhance Literary Magazine
http://enhancemag.onimpression.com/
June 2013:
"Roll Ever Columbia" cavalcadeofstars
Northeast Night
two hands vox poetica
http://voxpoetica.com/two-hands/
May 2013:
The Last Libation Dead Snakes
First pub. in Sentinel Online
Midnight Voyager
http://deadsnakes.blogspot.com/2013/05/daniel-wilcox-two-poems.html
First pub. in La Fenetre in France
April 2013:
The Revolution Dead Snakes
First pub. in Lucid Rhythms
http://deadsnakes.blogspot.com/2013/04/daniel-wilcox-poem.html
March 2013:
Ah, Bird Poop Van Dead Snakes
First pub. in The Bicycle Review
November 2012:
In Every Crisis Ancient Paths Literary Magazine
After the Battle The Write Room
They Have Procedures Mad Swirl
Face-Overs Mouse Tales Press
October 2012:
At the Retreat Ascent Aspirations
September 2012:
Three Sons Fight and Allah Knot Magazine, Middle Eastern Journal
First pub. in outwardlink.net
Whether...an Arab Spring
First pub. in The New Verse News
Shell Casings
First pub. in different form in The Recusant
El Paso Unlikely Stories IV
Use Your Head?
http://www.unlikelystories.org/12/wilcox0912.shtml
Monks Brawl in Holy Sepulcher
First pub. in The New Verse News
August 2012:
AWOL Paradise Review
July 2012:
Shipping Thirty Pieces The Camel Saloon
http://thecamelsaloon.blogspot.com/2012/07/shipping-thirty-pieces.html
WayLight The Mindful Word
4-Letter Praise
http://www.themindfulword.org/2012/poems-daniel-wilcox-present-moment/
Discarding
First pub. in Tipton Poetry Journal
Present Moment
First pub. in Liturgical Credo
Retina Shadow
First pub. in The Greensilk Journal
Outside the Limit
First pub. in Flutter Poetry Journal
June 2012:
horse trailer Lyrical Passion Poetry
First pub. in Stylus Poetry Journal
May 2012:
Clammy Chops vox poetica
http://voxpoetica.com/clammy-chops/
Their Beekeeper's Moon The Greensilk Journal
http://www.thegsj.com/poetry_3_spring_2012.html
4th poem down
The Journey Rime of Faith Rubber Lemon
April 2012:
Lapping Ideas Front Porch Review
First pub. in The Centrifugal Eye
Out of the Carcass Enhance
March 2012:
" Let's Do the 'Twister'" The New Verse News
http://newversenews.blogspot.com/2012/03/lets-do-twister.html
February 2012:
Gum Up Poydras Review
End of a Rope
First pub. in The New Verse News
January 2012:
Human Imitation Bigger Stones
Joan of Arc The Camel Saloon
http://thecamelsaloon.blogspot.com/2012/01/joan-of-arc.html
December 2011:
Rock the Nations as a Cradle The New Verse News
http://newversenews.blogspot.com/2011/12/rock-nations-as-cradle.html
Sunday Morning Quill & Parchment
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Dec2011/sund.html
November 2011:
Cape May Light hotmetalpress.net
The Mystery of Modern Life
Missouri's 'Job'
Markers
Ventura Beach
October 2011:
Summer of Love Quill & Parchment
First pub. in Wild Violet
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Oct2011/summer.html
Reflection in Glass Westward Quarterly
First pub. in The Oak Bend Review
'Whether' The New Verse News
Of the Arab Spring
http://archive.feedblitz.com/8753/~4086452
Remix: Babbling On, Again, River Eunoia Review
http://eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2011/10/15/remix-babbling-on-again-river/
One Dog Night Unlikely Stories
http://www.unlikelystories.org/11/wilcox1011.shtml
Brief Decades Review
Mean 'Wile' Unlikely Stories
First pub. in Frame Lines
Tomorrow and Unlikely Stories
and Tomorrow and
Tomorrow
First pub. in The Medulla Review
July 2011:
Walls The New Verse News
http://newversenews.blogspot.com/2011/07/walls.html
June 2011:
Ah, Bird Poop Van amphibi.us
First pub. in The Bicycle Review
May 2011:
A Last The New Verse News
http://newversenews.blogspot.com/2011/05/last.html
April 2011:
Perception Poetry Super Highway
the bumps Haiku Journal
March 2011:
sliced Three Line Poetry
dark tent
black barred window
http://threelinepoetry.com/issue.php?id=2&issue=2
earstopper The Write Room
Our Indy Pacer
Casting Out
February 2011:
The Paradox of Truth Western Friend Magazine
Borderlines The Camel Saloon
http://thecamelsaloon.blogspot.com/2011/02/borderlines.html
Traveling Within The Camel Saloon
January 2011:
Time Lapse Widowmoon Press
The Animal Sound in the Trees Widowmoon Press
First pub. in The Driftwood Review
Stone Seal Widowmoon Press
First pub. in The Writer's Eye Magazine
The Cat's Scientist Windowmoon Press
First pub. Abandoned Towers Magazine
And many more before. Do a Google search and find more washed up pieces of his poetic driftwood on the vast shores of the Internet.
His wild lines have fallen to print in many magazines including vox poetica, Fish Food Magazine, Contemporary American Voices,
The Camel Saloon, Ascent Aspirations, Poetry Pacific, Dead Snakes, Paradise Review, The Mindful Word, Enhance Literary and Art Magazine, Knot Middle Eastern Literary Journal, Mouse Tales Press, Mad Swirl, Ancient Paths Literary Magazine, hotmetalpress.net, Front Porch Review, The Greensilk Journal, Bigger Stones, Lyrical Passion Poetry, Eunoia Review, The New Verse News, Decades Review, Quill and Parchment, Poydras Review, Counterexample Poetics, The Copperfield Review, Rubber Lemon, amphibi.us, Poetry Super Highway, Three Line Poetry, The Clockwise Cat, Liturgical Credo, Willows Wept Review, vox poetica, Structo Magazine #4, Four and Twenty, Gloom Cupboard, Clutching at Straws, The Centrifugal Eye, Wild Violet Literary Magazine, Lyrical Passion Poetry, A Handful of Stones, Haiku Journal, Right Hand Pointing, The Bicycle Review, Leaf Garden, The Recusant, Calliope Nerve, Static Movement, Unfettered Verse, outwardlink.net, protestpoems.org, Word Riot,
and
Moria Poetry, MediaVirus Magazine, Lunarosity, Hanging Moss Journal, The New Verse News, ocean diamond, The Writer's Eye, Mad Swirl, Abandoned Towers, Writer's Ink, The Scruffy Dog Review, Oak Bend Review, Crossing Rivers Into Twilight, Tipton Poetry Journal, The Cherry Blossom Review, Word Catalyst, The Houston Literary Review, Lucid Rhythms, Identity Theory, Halfway Down the Stairs, Frame Lines, Full of Crow, The Externalist, The Driftwood Review, Western Friend Magazine, Flutter Poetry Journal, Frostwriting, Words-Myth, Ink Sweat & Tears, Erbacce Print Journal, Sentinel Poetry Online, The November 3rd Club, the poetry warrior, The Shine Journal, Mississippi Crow Magazine, The Cerebral Catalyst, Anthrozine, Ink, Sweat, & Tears, Stylus Poetry Journal, Idlewheel Literary Friction, The Indite Circle, The Rogue Poetry Journal, The WriteSideUp, La Fenetre International Literary Magazine,The Other Side Magazine, Gambit, etc.
There are 3 collections of Daniel's published poems,
Psalms, Yawps, and Howls,
Dark Energy
and selah river.
All 3 areavailable at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, local bookstores, and coffee shops.
For Daniel's speculative writing, futuristic poems and stories warp over to
http://lastthings.weebly.com/.
Other websites include
http://lightwaveseeker.weebly.com/
http://planktonpelican.weebly.com/
and
http://infiniteoceanoflightandlove.blogspot.com/
And OLDER PUBLISHED POEMS:
December 2010:
Ricochet Yes, Poetry
November 2010:
Of Princes and Frogs Liturgical Credo
But the Cesspool...
Right Here
The High Way Chair
Present Moment
http://liturgicalcredo.wordpress.com/present-moment-daniel-wilcox/
The So n' So Argument MediaVirus Magazine
October 2010:
The Last Act Midwest Literary Magazine
Short Story
Morning Four and Twenty
http://4and20poetry.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/4and20_v3i10.pdf
A Word from the Tree Front Porch Review
September 2010:
All 'Hail' Gloom Cupboard
August 2010:
A Love Affair The Clockwise Cat
Iraqi Temples
http://clockwisecat.blogspot.com/2010/07/two-poems-by-daniel-wilcox.html
Giving Talk 'A' Graded Clutching at Straws
July 2010:
Sign of the 12 Rubber Lemon #1
Tomorrow The Medulla Review
and Tomorrow
and Tomorrow
June 2010:
The Hatted Fish Structo Magazine #4 UK
http://structomagazine.co.uk/
The Canine Trail vox poetica
http://voxpoetica.com/the-canine-trail-memorial/
Onslaught Danse Macabre
Live Branch Reach Willows Wept Review
Night Watch Psalm
May 2010:
manta ray Lyrical Passion Poetry
Retina Shadow The Greensilk Journal
http://www.thegsj.com/poetpg5sp2010.html
The Teeth of It The Centrifugal Eye
April 2010:
Israeli Morning Wild Violet Literary Magazine
http://www.wildviolet.net/2010/04/13/israeli-morning/
red peaches A Handful of Stones
The Last Exit Right Hand Pointing
March 2010:
molten froth waves A Handful of Stones
February 2010:
Sayings so Unkind The Centrifugal Eye
Ah, Bird-Poop Van The Bicycle Review
Three Poems The Copperfield Review
Midnight Voyager Unfettered Verse
The Cheyenne Gift Scattered Hearts Anthology
Short Story
January 2010:
On Visiting Leaf Garden
Hemingway's Mansion
Only Left Standing
The Modern Covenant Calliope Nerve
Of Things Past Static Movement
and Future
December 2009:
The Nemesis Counterexample Poetics
Three Sons outwardlink.net
Divergent Learning
A Song of Songs
http://www.outwardlink.net/features/danielwilcox/song_of_songs_into_olding.html
The Wind Blew Away Mad Swirl
the Young
Caught in the Act
in Iraq
October 2009:
To Whom it Does Not protestpoems.org
Concern
http://protestpoemsdotorg.blogspot.com/2009/10/daniel-wilcox.html
August 2009:
End of a Rope The New Verse News
http://newversenews.blogspot.com/2009/08/end-of-rope.html
Her Strands Writer's Ink
Walking the Night
July 2009:
Dark Energy Diminuendo Press
Book of Poems
The Trouble with Names In the book Writing Cheerfully on the Web
and Terms
a few blasphemies The Recusant
The Winged Ones
Black Light
Comcerning this 500th
Anniversary of John Calvin
and his Tongues of Fire
http://www.therecusant.org.uk/#/daniel-wilcox-new/4534156653
June 2009:
love's bullion Full of Crow
mowed field
May 2009:
Picture Identity Oak Bend Review
Under the Sky World The Green Silk Journal
Hardwood Tap Dancer
http://www.thegreensilkjournal.citymax.com/poetrypg2may09.html
Ever After The Shine Journal
Our Human Real Estate Word Catalyst
The Miser
For Goodness Sake
April 2009:
Cambria in Gray The Houston Literary Review
restless slumber
March 2009:
'ExHume' the Mind Counterexample Poetics
The Incredible Shrinking
Consciousness
Eye Bandits
A Twist of the Words
Alluded Fractures
The Cup Wild Violet
http://www.wildviolet.net/linked_lives/cup.html
February 2009:
Mean 'wile' Frame Lines
The Cat's Scientist Abandoned Towers Print Magazine #2
Cold as Hell Frostwriting
First pub. in The Externalist
In Store for Less the poetry warrior
January 2009:
Missing Star and Cradle Danse Macabre
December 2008:
Live Branch Reach Western Friend Magazine
Less Is More
The Daughter's Return Word Riot
Body Parts
California Mythic Death Moria
AWake
http://www.moriapoetry.com/wilcox.html
November 2008:
The Nature of Fishhooks The Centrifugal Eye
Art Clasps Mississippi Crow Print Magazine
Getting the Slip
Up Early
after the cyclone Hanging Moss Journal
A Modern Psalm
Monks Brawl in Holy The New Verse News
Sepulcher
http://newversenews.blogspot.com/2008/11/monks-brawl-in-holy-sepulcher.html
The Mythic Mask Mad Swirl
after the loss
The Slowness of Danger
three haiku ocean diamond
Stone Seal The Writer's Eye
The Faces of Rock Danse Macabre
Short Story Reprint
Perception in Late Night Word Catalyst Magazine
Under the Big Sky
A Song of Songs
Into Olding
October 2008:
Research Filing Cabinets Mad Swirl
In the Far Lane The Scruffy Dog Review
Wasted Wealth Word Catalyst Magazine
The Shell Zebra Mussels In
September 2008:
The Dog's Bite The Recusant
http://www.therecusant.org.uk/#/danielwilcoxpoem2/4530917392
The Loss of April Oak Bend Review
Reflection in Glass
The Lady in the Garden
Baja Abandoned Towers
Without Rime
The Possibility of Suburbia
Divergent Learning
Paradise
The Space Clown
First pub. in Right Hand Pointing
August 2008:
Gargoyle The Clockwise Cat
Utter Common Sense
library census
Reflection While
'Lying' on a Bed at a Slant
Collapsed Falling
http://clockwisecat.blogspot.com/2008/07/five-themed-poems-by-daniel-wilcox.html
July 2008:
Dirge in the Night Danse Macabre
Night Watch Psalm The Cherry Blossom Review
Messed-Up News Crossing Rivers Into Twilight
June 2008:
The Road Kill Cliche The New Verse News
May 2008:
Two Haiku Ink Sweat & Tears
The Crucified Isle The Centrifugal Eye
April 2008:
Black Samaritan The Houston Literary Review
of the Street
Rock Life
Partially Found
Poem Lost--
Hemingway
By the Waters erbacce print journal
surreal morning
Stoned for Truth
Dear Susan B
The Modern The Cerebral Catalyst
Covenant
March 2008:
the animal sound in the trees The Driftwood Review
Of Things Past and Future Half Way Down the Stairs
http://www.halfwaydownthestairs.net/index.php?action=view&id=76
February 2008:
Aesopian Snail The Cerebral Catalyst
Discarding Tipton Poetry Journal
http://tiptonpoetryjournal.com/tpj8/wilcox.htm
Waking at the Funeral Lunarosity
Montana's History
Lesson
The 'Darlossness' The Clockwise Cat
of Dawkins
http://clockwisecat.blogspot.com/2008/01/five-themed-poems-by-daniel-wilcox.html
Only Left Standing
What Nerve of
the 23rd Psalm
Artesian Well
of Voice
Losing Your Head
January 2008:
Be Forewarned The New Verse News
http://newversenews.blogspot.com/2008/01/be-forewarned.html
December 2007:
Outside the Limit Flutter Poetry Journal
The Revolution Lucid Rhythms
The Space Clown Right Hand Pointing
November 2007:
Shell Casings The Recusant
shadowed garden The Green Silk Journal
http://www.thegsj.com/page/page/5161101.htm
Conflicted West The Writer's Eye
Fable of the North The Centrifugal Eye
My Canadian And in the book Dark Energy
Memories
From Below
the Line
Caught in the Act The Clockwise Cat
http://clockwisecat.blogspot.com/2007/11/five-political-poems-by-daniel-wilcox.html
Kiss of Death
'Heir Ball'
The Day My
Battery Died
Carpet Diem
Pomona Hills Identity Theory
Her Santa Right Hand Pointing
Barbara Way
Court Hearing
The Faces of Rock The Danforth Review
Short Story
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/202/300/danforth/2007/no20/fiction/09_07/wilcox.htm
2 Haiku Idlewheel literary friction
http://idlewheel.wordpress.com/volume-2/esch-haiku/
Summer of Love Wild Violet
in Philadelphia
http://www.wildviolet.net/blue_moon/summer_love.html
Harvest Time Words-Myth
and in the book Dark Energy
Yosemite The Indite Circle
Sitting... Word Riot
Natural Selection
Lapping Ideas The Centrifugal Eye
I Love You Flannery
O'Connor
The Last Libation Sentinel Poetry Online
http://www.sentinelpoetry.org.uk/0207/wilcox.html
Redux of Moose Words-Myth
and Men
And in the book Dark Energy
Iraqi Temples The November 3rd Club
One The Green Silk Journal
http://www.thegsj.com/page/page/4231640.htm
3rd poem down
On Hemingway's Mansion The Rogue Poetry Journal
Fall's Impression The WriteSideUp and Dark Energy Book
Cold as Hell The Externalist and in the book Dark Energy
Word from Tree La Fenetre International Literary Magazine
The Wearing
Midnight Voyager
The Essence of Software
The Cat n' Mouse Anthrozine
http://anthrozine.com/ptry/cat.and.mouse.html
3 Haiku The Stylus Poetry Journal
Sunday Morning The Other Side Magazine
The First Gulf War The Evangelical Visitor
Supper The Other Side Magazine
Fall Eyes Gambit
Editorial Columist The Forty-Niner of Cal State University, Long Beach
Other Poems and Articles Small Magazines and School Publications
Short Story Award Scholastic Magazine National Short Story Contest
We're Disturbing the Chaos Honorable Mention
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Daniel's wandering, wondering lines have appeared in many magazines including Contemporary American Voices, vox poetica, Dead Snakes, Word Riot, Centrifugal Eye,
Write Room, Enhance, Static Movement, Counterexample Poetics, and Unlikely Stories IV.
Three large collections of his published poetry are in print: Dark Energy,
Psalms, Yawps, and Howls, and selah river. And a speculative novel, The Feeling of the Earth, one of alternate history and futuristic science fiction.
Before that, Dan hiked through the University of Nebraska, Long Beach State (Creative Writing), Montana, Pennsylvania, Europe, Palestine-Israel, Mexico, Canada, Arizona, and many other states. Now he resides with his quilting wife on the central coast of California. Life gets difficult in elder age as I got a stroke of bad luck, so am mostly house-bound. But as circumstances get tough--we MUTANTS get tougher:-).
