Selected Poetry
Links for Poetry Online
2024
"Hymn to the Sinai Mothers and Fathers (Mulberry Literary)
"The Corsairs" (Sheila-Na-Gig)
"Foraging" (Red Eft Review)
"Whispers" (Front Porch Review)
"Deep" (Lucky Jefferson)
2023
"Small Scars" (Tipton Poetry Journal) Scroll over to page 40
"Paw Prints" (Stone Poetry Quarterly)
"My Grandmother's Tongue," "Anonymous" (Anacapa Review)
"Do You Love Me, Chicago?" "See-ums" (Willawaw Journal)
"Trespassing," A Hot Afternoon in Soybean Country" (Pomona Valley Review) scroll down to pages 56 and 134
"chernobyl-rust and steel" (Bluepepper)
"Mercy," "Flights," "The Long Ride" (Synchronized Chaos)
"My Argument with Nature (A Love Poem)" (Tinderbox)
"Near Shores" (Dust Poetry Magazine)
"The Queen of Chicago" (Lit Shark) scroll down to page 85
"Queen of Heaven Cemetery: Hillside, Illinois" (Sheila-Na-Gig)
2022
"Amid the Ruins," "Ashes to Ashes," "Virtuosity," (Euphemism)
"Summer after the Coup" (Grey Sparrow Journal)
"Desert Borders" (Plum Tree Tavern)
"The Better Part" (Five Fleas)
"Inertia" (Change Seven)
"Decay" (Bluepepper)
2021
"Four Eyes" scroll down to page 21 (Pomona Valley Review)
"Language of Love" (As It Ought To Be)
"Ears Growing Dark" (Sledgehammer)
"Buzz" (Grey Sparrow Journal)
"Gonna Smack Those Teachers" (Blue Mountain Review) scroll over to page 204
"Skin" (Dodging the Rain)
"Blossom" (Fahimidan Journal) scroll down to page 32
"Deeper," "My Commitments," "Reaching" (Lit Stream Magazine)
"Twisty Smile". (Open Door) on page 37
“True Grit,” “When I Said Home,” and “Champaign" (Euphemism)
"Our First Road Trip" (Rat’s Ass Review) Search for Modica
"Spring Mud" (Red Eft Review)
"Misdirection" (Sheila-Na-Gig)
"A Brother's Love" (Raven Review)
2020
"Our Separate Ways" (Green Ink Poetry)
"Metamorphosis" (Raconteur Review)
"J'accuse" (Bluepepper)
"How to become an Almost American" (failbetter)
"Lines Written on a River Bank" (Trouvaille Review)
"Blurring the Lie," "Man Up," "White out" (Adelaide)
"The Shovel Man," "Silver Thaw," "The Valour of My Tongue" (Literary Yard)
"Riverside Drive" (Line Rider Press)
"What I Love" (Spank the Carp)
"EnVy," "Antipasti," "Life's a Bitch," "Porcelain" (Fleas on the Dog)
2019
"Odyssey" (Bindweed Magazine)
"First Funeral" (The Pangolin Review) click on PDA for Modica
"Mourning for Myself," "Another Sigh," "For the Pigeons," "Nights" (Spillwords)
"1965" (Green Hills Literary Lantern)
"History Repeats Itself" POETICA REVIEW
"Against Nature Poetry," "The Drone" (Former People)
"Cancer the Cat," "Trespassing," "St Cancer" (Ariel Chart)
"War Games," "War by any other Means," "Sign Language" (Terror House Magazine)
"Baker's Dozen" (Steel Toe Review)
"Palimpsest" (Tipton Poetry Review)
2018
"Deja Vu," "Skyward" (Soft Cartel Magazine)
"Siren" (The Drabble)
"Say the Word" (Bidwell Hollow) Search for Modica
"My Father’s Name" (Cacti Fur)
"Extinction" (Pittsburgh Poetry Houses)
2017
"Shall We Gather at the River?" "No Exit," "Circulation" (The Write Launch)
"Tapestries" (Red Fez)
"The Longest Night," "Matinees," "Tabula Rasa," "Background Noise," "Blood on the Wheels," "Transubstantiation" (Verse Wrights)
"Death by a Thousand Cuts," "On the Edge," "Triptych" (Five2one Magazine)
"What I Hear" (1947 Jourmal)
"Rainbow Bus" (CU Poetry MTD Poem) scroll down to 2017 Winner
"Cross Stitch;" "Rimbaud;" "Good Morning, Blues" (Rat's Ass Review) scroll down to Modica
"Grandpa's Death Watch" ( Cacti Fur)
"Fireflies" (Founder’s Favorites on page 8)
