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Rodd's Poems

Blue Skies

Selected Poems Available Online

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"The Skies Inside our Home" The Lake, May 2022. 

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"Hiding from the Puppy" and "Scouting Report" ucity review, Issue 23, December 2021 

 

"How I—a 56-year-old Man Who Has Never Been to Paris—Happened to be on the Lanvin Perfumes Website for Forty Minutes on a Work Day" Whale Road Review, Issue 22, Spring 2021

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To the Final Bit of Night, a PrayerRiver Heron Review Issue 4:1, February 2021

 

Your Wife Decides on Kayaks" The Ear, Issue 24, January 2021 

 

I Would Tell My SonRockvale Review, Issue Seven, November, 2020

 

The SpacemanRockvale Review, Issue Seven, November, 2020

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Traveling to ThanksgivingSweet Tree Review, Vol. 5, Issue IV, 2020 

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"A House," Broadkill Review, November 2020

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"Another Elegy for the Arctic," Broadkill Review, November 2020

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"The Giraffe is a Friendly AnimalBroadkill Review, November 2020

 

"The Hidden Blessing of the Covid Quarantine," The Mark Literary Review,  September 2020

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"Lido," Ghost City Review, June-August 2020

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"Prepping My Son for Finals," Peatsmoke Journal, April 2020

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"BBC Cosmology," Peatsmoke Journal, April 2020

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“An Anniversary, I Think,” Barren No. 12, January 2020

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“Careers Week,” The Wellington Street Review, Issue 4, Jan. 31, 2019

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"Relax. There is an Author.” River River, Issue 10, December 2019

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"Mesa at New Year" Kissing Dynamite, Issue 5, May 2019. 

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Something about a bridge" The Shore, Issue 1, March 2019.

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How do you call it when" Barren, Issue 5, January 2019. 

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The Thing that Would Make Her Happy" Lightly Red Press, November 9, 2018.

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“A Tangle of Spirea” Anti-Heroin Chic, September 2018.

 

What I Mean When I Tap the Heart Button (on a tweet by Ada Limon)” Kettle Blue Review Issue 5.1 May 2018.

 

“Hecate” Pif Magazine, No. 250, March 2018.

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“In the Weeks Before,” Shot Glass Journal, Issue # 24, February 2018.

 

“My Dog Feigns He’s New to English,” Menacing Hedge, Winter, January 2018.

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“Cash me outside” * 82 Review, Issue 5.3, Fall 2017.

 

“Middle Illinois,” 2 River View, Spring 2017.

 

“Lana Turner in Ascension,” Literary Orphans, September 2016.

 

“Someone Else’s Car,” Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Vol. 3, Issue 3, August 2016.

 

“The Thing I Should Have Liked to Ask Stephen Hawking,” Shot Glass Journal, Issue # 19, June 2016.

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“Now We are 50,” Chagrin River Review, Issue 6, 2015.

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