Category: Poetry

After the Darkness and Thunder

“That October was particularly dreary. / The clouds slid through the sky / Like lazy gondolas weighted down by unfurling ropes.”

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A dream of mending

Our skies sink further into dust and while we wait for cloud-made seams, the earth tears limb from limb, and trusts that we will mend her — so it seems.   As fires rage through forests deep, we find ourselves … Read More

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A Haibun for our Fallen Leaves

“Short breaths are suspended like smoke, naked against the frail air.”

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Abyss

“Hypnotic / In the crayon-colored blue of her womb, a / Pale body bubbles and floats.”

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Mr. Poem

Mouth taking the form
around like the moistening apple core
which deforms peculiarly
in the way of these things,

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Conclusion

Here’s to the rubble: starlight starts to grow quietly. The world comes to chaos so quietly.   Gravity promised to give up for a minute if we told it the things we know, quietly,   so we let foggy breath … Read More

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With Teeth

You can go suck a fuck.

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The Afterparty

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

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The Launching of the Spittle

An Account of a Memorable Scene from the VH1 Reality Show Flavor of Love in the Heroi-Comical Style of Alexan- der Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock”.

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A Breath

Have you ever seen a body exhale its last breath?

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Hymn

They undressed

The Poet down

to his skivvies

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Ten Cousins

“My cousins live fifteen
Minutes away. By foot.”

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