“Sometimes it Yips Back,” “The Feast and the Beast,” “Silly Love Poems,” and “Writing is Easy”

Sometimes it Yips Back A 2019 response to Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” I. Generations apart, and yet the cards know that same old feeling---and speaking…


“When There’s Killing,” “Don’t Wake Me,” “The Stopwatch Writes,” and Other Poems

When There's Killing He knows it's not a fairytale world in which pigs dance, cows sing. He's grown into his father's toughness and his wile's…


“Understudy,” “Birds and a Basketball Court,” “Out to See,” and Other Poems

Understudy You imagining every Craigslist missed connection as something you wrote, reaching out to find a future (not past) version of yourself.…


“Pollock Paints ‘Reflection of the Big Dipper,'” “Because There is No Such Thing as a Post-War Poem,” “In the Real World,” and Other Poems

pollack paints 'reflection of the big dipper' the sun too bright on saturday afternoon and nothing i say worth believing listen i love you i'm……


“Short-Cuts: Quatrains of Fear, Volume I (1-3),” “Slave,” “Walt-Mart,” and “A Sonnet for Elvira, Mistress of the Macabre: No. 11”

Short-Cuts: Quatrains of Fear, Volume I (1-3) Finding out was the easy part of it Explaining how it was done will take time After all, you did want…


Generation Broken Home

I can recall a time when kids as young as five were throwing up the middle finger screaming profanities a generation raised by the Talmudivision Or…


“Tessa’s Marionette” and “The Liar’s Bench”

Tessa's Marionette She doesn’t paint her fingernails like I still do. Her band aid covered hand slithered across the cheap ink in my arms. I always…


Excerpts from Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire

translated by Burl Horniachek and Ian McMillan XI. The Wild Woman and the Fine Lady Really, my dear, you exhaust me without measure or pity. To hear…


“Flowing Down Green River,” “Old Bunyan,” and “A Writer’s Hell”

Flowing Down Green River Out in that Washington wood she took a swim, Flowing Down Green River So pale, so lovely splashing in that cold, cold……


“The Panathenaea in Ancient Athens,” “The Longing,” and “Shrouded in the Spartan Gloss-Fire”

The Panathenaea in Ancient Athens Paulus and Martin both sons of a Roman emigrant in bewitched Sparta went to Athens to participate in the dreamy…