Psalms, Yawps, and Howls

Psalms, Yawps, and Howls is a writing website of Daniel Eugene Wilcox, a writer, poet,
and kickabout traveler of the mind, human history, and the world.

Dan'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.

"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.
--
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
--

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:-)

--

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
--

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
--

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

--

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

--

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
http://www.fishfoodmagazine.com/poetry/2014/11/22/the-road-to-elsewhere

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://buddingzin.weebly.com/ Political Poetry to Drive Anyone, Named after Howard Zinn

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
https://cavalcadeofstars.wordpress.com/?s=Roll+Ever+Columbia

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
http://paradisereview.org/2012/08/09/awol/

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
http://enhancemag.onimpression.com/post/20573933047/enhance-no-7

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

http://haikujournal.org/issue.php?id=1&issue=1

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://buddingzin.weebly.com/
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

http://gloomcupboard.com/2010/09/05/
   poetry-125/#more-1701

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

https://sites.google.com/site/humor2010rhp/daniel-wilcox

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

http://www.frostwriting.com/issues/article/cold-as-hell/
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

http://www.wordriot.org/template_2.php?ID=1742

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

www.inksweatandtears.co.uk/pages//?s=Daniel+Wilcox

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

http://www.wordriot.org/template_2.php?ID=1292

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

--

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:-).