“School Drama” and “Tuesdays with Taylor”
School Drama You aren’t going to believe this, What, I just got an email from the kids’ school, Actually, I got an email from your biggest fan, He’s…
“Dictionary,” “Lover’s Tunes,” and “Nature Also Cries”
Dictionary I still can't decipher why papa asked me To define “moribund” with my maladroit brain, And state the ways it journeys through my spine…
“Licorice Pill” and “Second Shooter”
Licorice Pill I think a lot of people are afraid of how they want to be raped or killed (or both). It’s funny that that’s like, a truism in…
Lucy Starrs—Don’t Thank Your
Kathy the Goth---a graduate from Berkeley, California, so she said--- except not remotely true as it turned out--- was a big girl, meaning…
“Falling Asleep to Horror Movies” and “Fitter Use for the Flock”
Falling Asleep to Horror Movies My vision of sugar plums, dangling on branches, purple as prose, severed by the butcher knife swung by the man in the…
“In Full Bloom,” “Let Me Slow Down,” “Until You Came,” and Other Poems
In Full Bloom there is music in my heart and quete in my head members in full bloom like the boughs of some edenic sapling erst earthquake-struck…
“On the Rocks,” “Roscoe’s and Beyond,” and “Downtown Brevard”
On the Rocks It’s a day you’ll never forget, And not in a good way, Something was really wrong, That much you knew, And you just asked, And then she…
The Balls of Piss
Thought we’d give the balls of piss a miss Not as safe a place as you’d think anyway No climbing frame claim to fame this Or subverted regret game to…
“Some Transient Life,” “Untouched,” “Epitaph,” and “A Harp of Burma”
Some Transient Life In Hell light is dark And the weak are turned Stark One is left with naught But thought And so free goes the heart When all eyes…
“Bad Days and a Burning Tree,” “Being Suicidal,” and “Blood and Rose”
Bad Days and a Burning Tree The bad days were like molten iron. But they passed Like the blurring of lights after waking up That no one remembers.…
