“Death is a Light-Filled Bell,” “Posthumous,” “Untitled II,” and Other Poems

Death is a Light-Filled Bell The sun is an artifact, so foreign to the interrogated walls of my body. In a row of flooded subtemples, lush with…


“Permafrost” and “Amor Flat, Utah”

Permafrost Matisse fired Jesus on the spot: “I cannot work wiss sush a self-important model! Bring your daddy issues somewhere else!” He brightened…


“Dynamo of the Trailers,” “Bedouin of the Jungle,” “Everything,” and “My Dinner with Mighty Mouse”

Dynamo of the Trailers She’s seventy now; she’s had a full life. This is Hillary of whom I speak; I mean the one Bill used to call his little wife.…


“Freedom: Poemlet from Drawerling” and “The Victory Ode to the Dreamy Peace”

Freedom: Poemlet from Drawerling the liberty is the golden bosom a freedom---a diamond-like leaflet-home an eagle needs also a bit liberty I want to…


“Putting Cigarettes Out on My Ashtray Heart,” “The Things I Learned in Cellars, Wrote My Childhood’s Suicide Letters,” and “Fake Blood and Rubber Bats”

Putting Cigarettes Out on My Ashtray Heart Contentious dispositions imbibing courage through volatile elixirs in a room full of pretentious soapbox…


Dare I

Dare I breath without you on my own I send my soul searching for the shadow that went missing when I left the light behind me remove all reflections…


“The Father and Ruler of All Things,” “Exotericism,” “Reunion,” and Other Poems

The Father and Ruler of All Things Struggle is good/doncha understood Rapped the motivational speaker Just so, in China (little known As home to the…


“A Young Woman Contemplates Jumping,” “Welcome to the Future,” and “Snow White Redux”

A Young Woman Contemplates Jumping I intend to fall but I must not. I’m on a ledge of a bridge looking down at the water but am I really at the edge…


“I Rest,” “Move the Clock,” “Color,” and Other Poems

I Rest Death came to visit but didn't stay make it familiar but you still have to go this time was not mine but of a similar kind Move the Clock I…


Winter Rain in My Muse-Like Homeland

the eyesome fay at the crack of dawn in winter is weeping the winter rain in the form of magnificent teardrops is dropping down it is to be…