“Grandchild” and “Where God Stores Miscarried Souls”
Grandchild ---accurate in each fact Her birth tickled pink her four grandmothers. She was their first grandchild, their baby girl. Many hands…
“Strangers in the Sheets,” “Ode to the Deadlift,” “Sin-der,” and “Wedding Cake Foul”
Strangers in the Sheets And if we passed would you stop to say hello? Would I in turn not simply go? There but for the Grace... Of some forgotten…
“Enigma Billing,” “Imperative Song,” and “Climate Change”
Enigma Billing He didn’t often bill himself. His name evaporated off paper like smoke through a Vatican chimney. But today something slipped through…
Urbane Zoology, Wroth Anthropology
Now we see that last maggot-man, his kin shall not expire so long as Culture’s rotting corpse his gluttony inspires! Born in the foetid, urbane place…
“Diatribe,” “Treatise,” and “To My God in His Affliction”
Diatribe When the sister becomes a burden I drop her at the railroad tracks, her head a turquoise bauble. When the sister grows too heavy I take her…
“Graphophobia,” “Night View,” and “One Night in the Zika Zone”
Graphophobia One night a shapeless form gathers from the dark and jabs a knife into my brain, wounding the surface of thought. I huff out breath,…
“Deterrence,” “The Empirical World,” “Gastroenteritis,” and Other Poems
Deterrence Wombats and other creatures that make their living from others have all taken over the cashiers' positions at your favorite supermarket.…
“The Rage: Carrie Two” and “Depression Screening”
The Rage: Carrie Two Why did they have to remake you? Wasn’t one pig’s blood dress enough? Tommy’s dead head over a steel bucket, dropped from the…
“Hell for Thoughts,” “Ten Thousand Islands,” and “Hot Hot Hot”
Hell for Thoughts Never mind time past, time present and time future are become the New Now in the electric beargarden that lies beyond the Enter…
“Calypso” and “Marionette”
Calypso Broken boughs set upon starlit seas of blue--- endless tides of foam and melodies of you. Your eyes, dark and dismal as the storm, but within…
