Category: Poetry

Thanksgiving

“We pass it every year, the way the parade passes. Then we arrive home with the last notes of the song, evidence against our staying power, our packaging, upon return, found intact.”

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Thoughts on a Plane

“It was his finest, and most coveted, item.”

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Shortfall

“he didn’t exist in this language
of troubles
of demise”

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A Funeral the Day before Halloween

“There’s an imposter
In the coffin”

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Missing From June

“I miss my brother’s 18th birthday. He spends it kneeling in pews and tossing crosses of stems and swallowing Christfuls of dirt. No one falls into the pit. Oh, adult. Fresh mint.”

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Close

“Matter warps that geometry.
So I try to piece her together like he would.”

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The Character in Woody Allen Films Who is Clearly Just Woody Allen Played by Someone Else

“the Universe
is Expanding!”

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The Afterparty

“Bobby prays to God and
remembers to call the plumber”

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Edison by Train Window

“Bread lying open face on the lightly dented
plastic, white table, the one you 
always see at bake sales.”

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Stages of Departure

“What do you do when you suspect
that you’ve unleashed the atom bomb of the Universe”

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Lost Pieces

“Nails are too long,
can’t remember to cut them
they are colored with everything I hold
like the skin of orange peel—
a citrus flesh that never bleeds”

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first love

“cicadas he dares not search for
but whose song fills him,
whose notes he knows well.”

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