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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. 

--

​February 2024:



​
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

​

​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

​

Picture


 
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

--

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.
​-----

​You might like to do a Google sleuth and find washed up pieces of his poetic driftwood on the vast shores of the Internet.

Dan's  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.

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


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


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


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

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

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 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:-).



















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