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Tea-Bagged
That idiotic doctor smiling down at me as if I am a Christmas leg of lamb ready to carve into my chest searching for a purse of gold and municipal…
Camp Mosquito
First Saturday of July “We're here,” Mom announced. She handed me my camper's pack and I stepped out of the vehicle. It had been a long trip. “Have…
“Only Black and White Dreams,” “Stanton Avenue Blues,” and “Once I Was”
only black and white dreams the cat, new to birding after 15 years, stalks three crows on television they rummage through winter she’ s dressed for…
Calcandi Supra Serpentes
An old long-limbed man in a white starched shirt and black pants stood out among the camo-clad worshipers. His white hair flung back, “...and alas,…
“My Fifteenth Year,” “Done to Death,” and “Notes from Hermosillo”
My Fifteenth Year I remember the schools of dead carp on the riverbank, the bonfires, the first booze and the first smoke rolling through me like…
The Simp
Instagram: catalogue of nubile flesh. I scroll through it like a murderer flipping through the case against him. My crest is fallen like a certain…
Unendingly Picturesque: A Pulchritudinous Sonnet
I am through a superb window---looking. An angel of feeling awakes in me. The dreamy oak-trees stand alway* leafless. The native auspicious cue** is…
Emperors, Part 3
This must’ve been almost 60 years ago, the start of it. The primary agent eventually became the director of the bureau. But then he was still a…
“Resurrection,” “Feed Us,” “Shadow of a Dream,” and Other Poems
Resurrection At last, you picked up the brush my spirit soars in quiet anticipation, you create my insubstantial shadow extract my emotion, and…
The Falcon’s Final Flight
"Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but whoever takes crooked paths will be found out." --- Proverbs 10:9 Ostrołęka, Poland: 1955 Tok! Scuff!…
