Vicki Mandell-King

Published Poems

 

13th Moon – A Secret Life

 

Aries – A Change of Mind, Among Strangers, Can Water Be Your Friend? He Returns, Life as Myth – A Legacy, Roberta, We Take Ourselves With Us

 

Artisan Journal – Champagne Effect

 

Blind Man’s Rainbow – Obsession, The “I” in Berry and Stone 

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Calyx – Called Out

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Coal City Review –  Bodies of Water, But When and How, Home Sweet Home, Negative Space

 

Comstock Review – The Prompt

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Freefall – Elephant Memories, Halfway Home, Mother’s Closet, The Bath

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Hidden Oak – Ballroom Lessons, The “I Don’t Know” Place

 

Illya’s Honey – A Brother's Strokes, A Change in the Weather, All in a Day in New York City,  Bone of Contention (nominated for the Pushcart Prize), Call Back, December Sugar, Entwined, Fabrication, Flight Plan, Habitat, I Always Cry at Weddings (nominated for the Pushcart Prize), In Transition, It Was My Idea, Just a Few More Steps, My Father’s Voice, Only Practice, Power Outage, Putting the Puzzle Together, Taking a Drive, Tawny, The Necklace, The Offering, Up and Along the Continental Divide

 

Kalliope – Sleep Ritual

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Karamu/Bluestem – Divining the Dark, Over Wire

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Listening Eye – Dragonfly, Rocking a Newborn to Sleep, The Watershed 

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Main Street Rag – A Parting Gift, At the Airport Gate, Butterfly, Drowned, Face Paint, Getting Down to Basics, Grandmother’s Cactus, Humbled, I Need to Remember This, In Utero, Limelight and Smooth, Nocturnal, The Exact Hour, The Model and Her Artist

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Margie Review – The Accident

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Mountain Gazette – Recognition, The Sense of Cents, Touch Is the Last to Go, Trying to Get It Right

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Mudfish – Drought’s End, Family Reunion, Imagining Is Becoming, Untouchable

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Old Red Kimono –  Among the Ruins, Conflagrations, Rewriting History, The Order of Things

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Oyster Boy Review – In a Garden by the Sea

 

Pearl – And What of Humor, Kubler-Ross?

 

Pegasus – Into This Quiet Forest, Traces

 

Pinyon Review – Hoo-Doos in Bryce Canyon, Our Urban Forest, Spring Snow in the Forecast

 

Plainsongs – Address Book,  Hers Is a Plea for Nothingness, I Can’t Stop Thinking About the Dog, Reversal, The Journey, The Largest Bighorn Ram in Colorado Has Died 

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Poem – A Charm of Hummingbirds, An Affinity for Place, Day Turns into Night, Dreaming of Oblivion, Edge of Empathy, He Had Long Since Given Up, The Many Ways to Break, The Knowing

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Poetry Depth Quarterly – Listening to Seeger/Reading Keen, Proceeding to the Exquisite, Seized

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Pralaton/Parnassus Literary Journal – Harney’s Pond, Piece of Pompeii, The Stranger

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Praxis – Eve Speaks, She Sits Across from Me, The Lure of Clay, The Reading, Two Women in Sarajevo

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Roanoke Review – Laughter Really is Carbonated Holiness

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Room of One’s Own – The Bear in Winter, The Rose Bush

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Slant – And Why Not, Believing Is Seeing, Converting to Horse, Eden Before Knowing, Gone Awry, If Your Suitcase Could Talk, It Would Say,  Rousing the Sleeping Serpent, Wistful

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Slipstream  – Cosmology of the Body, Ghost

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Small Ponds – Consolation

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Snowy Egret  – How Did We Get Here?  The Architecture of Place, Urban Wild

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Sow’s Ear – Hotel Tropic, A Mother Grieving (The Flood)

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Tiger’s Eye – Seeing Stars, Skating Lesson, Still Life with Horse, Taking a Ghost for a Drive, The Heart’s Debris, This Love of the Land

 

Timber Creek Review – Form

 

Tribeca Review – Tattoo, Two Little Words, White Supremacist Executed for Dragging Death,

Word Play  

 

White Pelican Review – Charm, Revisioning, The Blue Jar, The City Forester Said It Is Not Native, Totem

 

Wild Violet – Leap Away, Making Safe to Tell

 

Words of Wisdom – Snowblind

 

Zillah – On Account of Night