"Cold Mountain" wins Subud International Cultural Association (SICA) Poems for Peace Award
"Just Like John Glenn" is semi-finalist in Knightsville Poetry Contest
"Psalm 656" wins 2012 Fischer Prize
My "beatific and irreverent" poem was awarded First Place in the Telluride, Colorado competition, and "Shooting the Apple" earned an Honorable Mention.
Click here for a complete list of awards.
Click here for a complete list of awards.
Poems & Poetry Collections
Buddha's Cat
(Whistle Lake Press, 2024) These poems explore our relationship with dogs and cats, as well as with wolves, foxes, bobcats, coyotes, panthers and other wild species. $15 + shipping ($19 total) 
Googling a Present Participle: Poems, Prose Poems, Bogus Monologues & Fraudulent Artifacts
(Aldrich Press, 2014) $17 + shipping ($21 total) 
The Underside of Light (Aldrich Press, 2013) $17 + shipping ($21 total) Twenty Poems from the Blue House (with Alice Morse Lee) (Whistle Lake Press, 2003) $10 + shipping ($13 total) To order Googling a Present Participle, The Underside of Light or Twenty Poems from the Blue House, please send a check or money order made out to Wayne Lee at 618 Old Santa Fe Trail, Apt. D, Santa Fe, NM 87505. Bedtime Down to the barest of words night moon sleep dream One daughter reading to the other before bed. Kumbhaka (Sanskrit for “the retention of the breath in the hatha yoga practice of pranayama”) In that scant pause between breaths, after you push the air from your lungs and before you pull it in again-- that is when the miracle occurs. We die so many deaths on our path, but always we are reborn. I spent a billion years in the bardo learning to turn stone to flesh.  |
Online Poems
"She Weaves the World," long con magazine "What a Wonderful World," Discretionary Love "Esme," "Patina," Heimat Review "An Exact Copy of Jesus," Last Stanza Poetry Journal (order here) "Minor Deities," "A Word from Grandmother" and "A Bit Like Lilacs," Leaping Clear "Made of Air," Kahini Quarterly "Shift Work," Work Zine "Acceptance Speech," Winning Writers "Calpurnia's Paranoia," "Arnold Decides to Sell His Hummer," and "I Know a Dog Who Thinks He is a Man," Society of Classical Poets "Song for Rahim Alhaj," Malala: Poems for Malala Yousafzai "Seed Pot" & "Years That Ask Questions," Society of Classical Poets "Garden Shed," Sliver of Stone "Breast Reduction," Santa Fe Literary Review "Psalm 656," Telluride Arts (Winner 2012 Mark Fischer Poetry Prize) "Greased Pig," Borderline "Jaguar Spotted in Hidalgo County," The Santa Fe Reporter "Testimony," Mobius (Nominated for Best of the Net award) "Rope Swing," The ManKind Project Journal "Punchline," Poemeleon "His Braids, Quill & Parchment "In the Basement of the New Yorker Hotel," The Camel Saloon "Reptilian Mind," The Camel Saloon (Nominated for Best of the Net award) "Ghost Ranch, Midnight," 200 New Mexico Poems "The Mother of the Bride Sleeps In," "Ten Koans from a Marriage," and "Two Cats," Quill & Parchment "High Mountain Monsoon" Quill & Parchment Two haiku, Adventum Magazine "My bicycle chain," Haiku Roadsign Project “Ordinary Deckhand,” Lowestoft Chronicle (Nominated for 2011 Pushcart Prize) “The Fortieth Day,” Voices Israel “the one with violets in her lap,” Tupelo Press “Moonlight Sonata,” Blue Mountain Arts Play of Light I’ve intercepted the light in its downward fall. It would have fallen anyway, but it would have landed somewhere else. I’ve moved and the play of light has changed, bent, shifted the shadows that slant below me. I did this without effort. I simply raised my hand, gestured, lowered my hand. I’ve deflected something, part of myself perhaps, onto someone else, you perhaps. Perhaps you’ve changed. Perhaps you raise your hand, gesture in return. I close my eyes-- you’re still there.
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Georgia Straight, British Columbia, 2009