Writing
Poetry Collections
2024
The Somatoliths
The Somatoliths explores how words and symbols become like bodily stones, unprocessable things that enhance or hinder our daily thoughts and actions. In its first sections, The Gastroliths, Cole explores those difficult-to-swallow truths, whose own unproductive digestions teach the habits and endurance necessary to cope. Part two, The Bufonite, uses the image of a mythical gemstone as the locus for lyrical medicines for childhood anxieties. Later, The Regurgitalith seeks to undo these habits, to find ways around the rote methods we use to cope to find the grim, often comically absurd weaknesses in the facades we conjure. Lastly, The Urolith meditates on very nature of poetic ideas, those things born inside but that must come out in the most ruthless ways possible.
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Poetry (Digital)
Ode to My One Weirdly Long Arm Hair, South Broadway Ghost Society, 2023
Valet Miniscula, Crowstep Journal, 2022
The Loiter You Do, Talon Review, Volume 2, Issue 5, 2022
Cardboard and The Timeless Art of Regurgitation, Poetica Review Issue 23, 2022
Urodela, Angel Rust Magazine, 2021
I play the fox, The Three Fs, and Homicidal Pigeons Fever, Unlikely Stories Mark V, 2021
Writing, The Quiver Review, 2021
Midday Acquaintance, Oddball Magazine, 2021
A Long Time Ago..., Rudderless Mariner Poetry, 2021
Poetry (Anthologies)
Apparent Death, Artemis Journal, 2022
A man gets up on stage, Vita Brevis' Pain & Renewal, 2019
Hereandnow and God Bones, Virginia Bards, 2019
Daisies, The Gallery, 2017