
Vicki Mandell-King
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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
Calyx – Called Out
Coal City Review – Bodies of Water, But When and How, Home Sweet Home, Negative Space
Comstock Review – The Prompt
Freefall – Elephant Memories, Halfway Home, Mother’s Closet, The Bath
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
Karamu/Bluestem – Divining the Dark, Over Wire
Listening Eye – Dragonfly, Rocking a Newborn to Sleep, The Watershed
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
Margie Review – The Accident
Mountain Gazette – Recognition, The Sense of Cents, Touch Is the Last to Go, Trying to Get It Right
Mudfish – Drought’s End, Family Reunion, Imagining Is Becoming, Untouchable
Old Red Kimono – Among the Ruins, Conflagrations, Rewriting History, The Order of Things
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
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
Poetry Depth Quarterly – Listening to Seeger/Reading Keen, Proceeding to the Exquisite, Seized
Pralaton/Parnassus Literary Journal – Harney’s Pond, Piece of Pompeii, The Stranger
Praxis – Eve Speaks, She Sits Across from Me, The Lure of Clay, The Reading, Two Women in Sarajevo
Roanoke Review – Laughter Really is Carbonated Holiness
Room of One’s Own – The Bear in Winter, The Rose Bush
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
Slipstream – Cosmology of the Body, Ghost
Small Ponds – Consolation
Snowy Egret – How Did We Get Here? The Architecture of Place, Urban Wild
Sow’s Ear – Hotel Tropic, A Mother Grieving (The Flood)
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