Poems
Candice is joined by poet Matthew E. Henry for their paired poems, each titled
“The Most Dangerous Game.” [Candice's poem] - Watch Video (Begins at Time Stamp of 1:45)
Listen to Candice read her poem "We Didn't Bother with the Rose Garden," an ode to her favorite place, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in Pasadena, CA
Read three of Candice's recent poems, Ode to a Dead Lover, Daughter's Math
and This Tender Dwelling .
Four New Poems, Hole in the Head Review
Dirty Energy Clean Up; or, Palimpsest
On Christian Hunting Devotionals
Reading About ChatGPT, I Miss My Brother
In the Silence of a Drive Home
At the DMV with My Pocket Haiku
At the Intersection of Lincoln and 83rd
Reflexology
Two cardinals perched outside the window
are taunting me like the masseuse who worked
my body and afterward answered my question—
how often should I see you?
by responding with brazen celerity—
every day, as if I too could plume carmine
beneath the sun’s fingers.
She Calls
In other rooms of years ago
She sometimes calls to me
This small girl dancing on tip-toe—
The child I used to be.
And how she beams so beautifully
Once she has climbed within
I think perhaps she wants to be
The woman I could have been.
