Poetry
Moore’s poems have been published in a variety of literary journals and publications under the names D.O. Moore, Deborah Owen Moore, and Deborah Lynn Owen. Select a publication cover below to view her poem(s).
Mother’s Day Visitor | D.O. Moore | Mom Egg Review: Literature & Art, momeggreview.com, January 13, 2021
Surfing Outside Log Cabins, Pacific Rim, 1998 | Waiting for West Virginia | D.O. Moore | The Fourth River, Spring 2019
Balance | D.O. Moore | Antiphon, Issue 23, September 2018, p. 35.
Illness and Blame Six Ways | D.O. Moore | Redheaded Stepchild, redheadedmag.com, Fall 2017.
Wedding Dress | D.O. Moore | Rhino 2006, p. 67.
Nasty Girls | D.O. Moore | The American Poetry Journal | Volume 3, Issue 1, Summer/Fall 2006.
Hypotensive, Or, The Day I Became Bird and Back | Unearned, Still Offered | D.O. Moore | Beloit Poetry Journal, Vol. 57, No. 1, Fall 2006.
Winter Quintet | Straining for Bliss | D.O. Moore | Elixir, Vol. 5 No. 1, pp. 18-19.
Splitting Oaks | D.O. Moore | Interdisciplinary Humanities, Special Issue 2003, p. 15.
Your Cookie's Fortune | D.O. Moore | Barrow Street, Summer 2003
Hearing Disintegration | D.O. Moore | Fugue, No. 25, Summer 2003, p. 108.
The Repetition Sings and Is Irresistible
By D.O. Moore
We love like the jittering finch. Nothing matters
but to carry these pieces of straw and broken shingle
through a rip in the window screen, into the sill’s
corner for a nest there, arrange them in the only
pattern possible. There is only through and back
and through with more.
We are building in the dark
and balancing on what we cannot see, singing
to upper reaches as we go, not for someone to hear
or because we understand, not because we chose or
know this sound from memory. We build because
we must. We were born with this song in our ears.
On Becoming Air | Salty Dog | D.O. Moore | Confrontation, No. 60/61 Fall 96/Winter 97.
Climbing Shale and Rain | D.O. Moore | Half Tones to Jubilee, No. 11, Fall 1996, p. 74.
Sugar From Bread | Grieving #9: The Language of the Sun | On Lying | Sand and Mountains | Menstruating #6: Medicated | D.O. Moore | The Akibo Quarterly, Fall 1995 pp. 92-97.
Grieving #17: As a River | Nearly Blind #23 | How You'd Speak to Me, If You Could | D.O. Moore | The Southwestern Review, Spring 1995, pp. 16, 50, 66.
Singing | D.O. Moore | The Chapbook | Dept. of English University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1995 p. 15. **John Z. Bennet Award for Poetry, Second Prize**
Losing My Skin | After Fish | D.O. Moore | Southwestern Review, Spring 1994, pp. 52-53.
Japanese Beetle | D.O. Moore | Gerbil: A Queer Culture Magazine, Number 6, pp. 22-23.
Menstruating #2: Surrendering | D.O. Moore | xib, 5, p. 34.
