“The Point: An Interactive Poem,” “See,” “Crime of Nature,” and Other Poems

The Point: An Interactive Poem So here’s the point: ·             That was the point. I…


A Song Can Speak

A Song can speak both for And To you Alice Blue Gown for my mother Or better yet Some version Of the song Written for---she who became  our…


Re-Death

Returning home after a tiring day; The drizzling, The disorienting neon lights, The drivers who shout from their cars When I cross the road without…


Ancestry

I am German (paternal side) and Pennsylvania Dutch (maternal side.) My mother told me that my paternal grandparents who came to America from Germany…


“Fentanyl Fucks So Good,” “On the Cenotaph for Small Fates,” “Checking in on Tom Sawyer,” and “The Last Prophecy of Nostradamus”

Fentanyl Fucks So Good The Somalis brought it. I don’t know where they got it. They’re coming in from Edmonton, driving slow at 3am. They are coming…


“Millstones,” “Medic,” and “Castor Oil”

Millstones "Why worry about a speck in your brother’s eye when you have a plank in your own?" Matthew 7:3 What if beside the plank in your eye…


“Red-Letter Day,” “Report from the Mother Ship,” “Havana, 1953,” and Other Poems

Red-Letter Day In the audiologist’s waiting room, I read an article about a “detectorist,” a Welsh school custodian whose metal detector signaled a…


“The Sri Lankan Hangman,” “Don’t Shoot the Politicians,” and “Tomfoolery”

The Sri Lankan Hangman In the paper today, tucked away on page nine, Sri Lanka is bringing back the death penalty. The president advertised for a…


“Anguish Longwedge,” “Way to be Free,” “Happiness on Wheels,” and “Substance”

Anguish Longwedge      Sit my nuts on a tee. Select a nine-iron. Smack the sack over the roof, beyond the blackberries, into…


“Lust,” “The Stunt of the Plagiarist,” “I Am Free!,” and “Hierophant”

translated by Gabor Gyukics Lust (Tarot, Major Arcana XI.)               I…