Poetry
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Dinner For One
She had a strained relationship / with appliances, circled like a satellite / / around the kitchen, a wary traveler. The toaster / singed her fingers, spit sparks into the...
Lean dream
I track the errant tides, irregular ebb and flow. / I open my mouth to suck / in water, I blow it back out, godlike, / salt residue on my lips. I...
Inheritance
Preparatory Glance / / Clouds gather as we ascend into quiet / smell shaken solitude form of forest, / Abbot Pass above a thinner waft / named for man dead, fallen, /...
Mosaics and Rain Laden Love Songs, or Journeys through the Broken World in Storms
One / (WINDOW: Castor and Pollux and the Lioness) / Secular and Gnostic at once. I didn’t know her, but we went out a set of doors at the same time and she...
Struggle Within
Crawling over and crawled over / busy with my hands and mouth / and legs too, really, looking one way / seeing another busy with his / hands, legs and mouth and...
Machines at Rust
Something really poetic is / machines rusting. / / Consider crushing them, / the implications of crushing them, / the impossibility of rehabilitation. / There is nothing to do regarding the...
Every Night of Our Lives
i. / / In dreams / houses are ends / of sad tales; a lantern’s / glint in a parched land. The first touch / of rain. / / ii....
Eye-Saddle
A girl who loved horses and poetry / once told me there are tricks you can do / on the eye-saddle of time—remembering, / for example, slows the animal down, / while...
Carve out the Eyehole
I kiss that cold space on your cheek, / a corner of light. I am on top / so it feels like I have the dick. / Feels good, right? / Waves...