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Click this image to read Marcus's poetry chapbook, "End of the Season."

End of the Season

This chapbook is about the creation, gestation, and birth of the child that will bring about the end of the world. It explores human sexuality, violence, and parenthood through the lens of deities and landscapes.

Click this image to read Marcus's poem, "Generation (Ars Poetica)."

Generation (Ars Poetica)

This poem is an exploration into the mechanics of writing a poem through the birth, life, and death of a child opens the poem up to questions of control, innocence, violence, and how those things intersect.
Originally published in the April 2019 issue of Riggwelter.

Click this image to read Marcus's poem, "Classroom Calling."

Classroom Calling

This poem belongs to a sequence about a speaker, their lover, and their lover's husband. Navigating family structures and atypical relationships, "Classroom Calling" brings in questions of parenthood and possession.
Originally published in the print edition of Cult Magazine, produced by Rad Press Publishing.

Click this image to read Marcus's poem, "Little Questions" in issue two of The Hellebore.

Little Questions

This poem belongs to a larger sequence about a speaker, their lover, and their lover's husband. Navigating family structures and atypical relationships, "Little Questions" embeds itself in the summer of southern America and finds the cool shadows lingering at the edge.
Originally featured in issue two of The Hellebore.

Click this image to read Marcus's valentine's poems in the valentine edition of "Shadow and Glow."

Jutro • Bona Dea • The Girl of My Dreams

My three poems, are explorations of love in different forms. Divinity and dreamscapes are put into the lens of desire in order to explore what love can look like.
These poems are featured in the February 2019 special valentine's themed release "Shadow and Glow."

Click this image to read Marcus's poem, "The Reaper's Ex."

The Reaper's Ex

This poem is a dissociation from grief through weaponized sexuality. Following a speaker inundated in the emotions of others, they follow the movements expected of them becoming more and more distant.
Originally published in the June 2018 issue of Ghost City Review.

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