A bouquet sat centered on the kitchen table, my eyes studying the lead crystal vase that had belonged to my mother. The etched wide...
Over the crest of a hill, I drove. A first glimpse through a fog-veiled light beam, headlights illuminating a field of diamonds, glittering the...
poetry is the torn sheet
the single sock
the bedspread stained
with cum
it's the roach
in the bathroom
the one you can’t
kill
it’s the footprint
in the rain
the barstool
waiting for your...
Something has hold of my house
rattles windows
drops branches forty feet
cats frozen mid-bite
heads hover above feast
roof intact-more debris I’ve not seen
a blow hard wind, a...
both over 60
you feel young
perhaps 40ish
you look at her
as if you’re 45
but she knows
you’re not
if she looks closer
it’s at your wallet
I see you as...
A woman sits beside me
on the park bench, she
has snow white hair and
wrinkled pixie-face
and deep sea blue eyes
she is waiting for the
bus, she says
to...
we smelled the woodsmoke
before we went in
old timers sitting in chairs
by the potbellied stove
in worn jeans
and old ballcaps
passing a flask
with a thick dent on...
behind the ridge line, a truck driver
backs his truck
into a barroom's parking lot.
A girl, standing in front of the
bar, puffs on a cigarette.
The barroom...
I was real
nervous talking
on the phone
luckily
the pretty neighbor
came out
and I stared at her behind
to calm down
I’d like to introduce
myself to her
but I’m really anxious...
I went on a Christian dating site
it’s cheating on my wife
but it’s ok
because it’s Christian
1
The quilt in Nana’s house had blue flowers
on a white background, smelled of soap
and fresh air, straight from the clothesline
2
Nana could never sit straight,...
she peels an apple
the paring knife slicing
long red ribbons
that fall on the counter.
I lick my thumb
turn the page.
there’s a faint hint of wood smoke,
logs...
thought
he was tough,
and
he was,
and he was also
a good six inches taller than me,
but i caught him
off guard when i lunged at him
on the
bus stop...
I am but a thin piece of pliable metal
wrapped tightly around myself
whose sole purpose is to keep it all together
tax documents, court room exhibits,
a...
drunko
calls his
girlfriend
wedgie
because she’s
always
up his
ass about
his drinking
and she’s a drunk
herself
drunko never fails
to remind her of this
when she starts
her nagging
it all usually
ends with the police
or really...
there is a thunderous noise
of a jackhammer somewhere near
accompanied by the rhythmic pounding
of steel beams being driven deep into the ground
Mother Earth is badly...
is where you’ll find the crickets making music
for their mating rituals
it is also where you’ll see the slithering snake
and the chipmunks cheating death again
you’ll...
The dog and I stopped
near a wood.
Heard a whistle
from deep behind the trees.
A call the dog knew
but not me.
With dog and duty
I returned
to feed...
michael brown lived to a ripe and comfortable old age and died of natural causes. his name was never mentioned in the press. living...
the gray matter in my brain
and the gray matter in the sky on this rainy day
melt together forming ugly gray shapes
on an ugly gray...
I walk
under cornflower skies
in late August
shoaling waves
land on shore
and die with a whimper
leaving tendrils of foam
that sail the wet sands
the taste of salt sharp
on...
A woman sits beside me
on the park bench, she
has snow white hair and
wrinkled pixie-face
and deep sea blue eyes
she is waiting for the
bus, she says
to...
he was
drawn
to this bit
of graffiti he saw
written in white paint
on the side of a building.
it was
in an alley,
and it read:
“fuck the world –
and fuck...