“Zombie,” “Shameless,” “Short-Cuts: Quatrains of Fear, Volume II (4-6),” and “Chupa-Ku, Volume VII: No. 31-35”

Zombies there aren’t any zombies in this old house nope, not a single one in here or out not a single man, not a single spouse not a single zombie…


“Okay Obelisk” and “Discourse Between Saint and Dog”

Okay Obelisk This unblinking obsidian. or maybe onyx. Soapstone stoicism til it deigns to smile. But only at my confusion. The grandmaster has……


“Alone,” “Flashbacks,” “How it Is,” and Other Poems

Alone They send you to this war alone you get shipped to some unit where you’re not even asked your name. If they ask, they might like you and the…


“A Long Life,” “A Cat and a Dead Fish,” and “Stick No Bills”

A Long Life ‘Discard bottle after use' They write. But we keep on using them. Harmful For both bottle and drinker. Some people are the same. Meant to…


The Spring Awakening: The Sonnet

The springtide wakes up not only in dreams. The snowdrops blowing in moony garths.* One listens to propitious paradise. The dearest graylag geese…


“Chromata,” “The Story, as I Remember It,” and “One of Us Will Live”

chromata fuck you & yr bed of nails, okay? yr goddamn pain yr ideas of sorrow we are not nothing we are less we are ghosts in the world of…


“Gods of a Bonehead 4,” “Gods of a Bonehead 7,” “Slow Bleed,” and Other Poems

Gods of a Bonehead 4 I was born into fire rub my ashes on your forehead in repentance I feel I’ve lived so many times it’s a crude joke---my soul…


“Too Much Brouhaha,” “Double-Stream Consciousness,” and “We Walk”

Too Much Brouhaha too much psychological brouhaha had overshadowed the glowing embers and bejeweled thoughts that were hidden in different capsules…


“This is Just to Say” and “Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Canceling the West”

This is Just to Say The poetic tradition is lost like one of Little Bo Peep’s sheep. The universal is dead, stomped flat by narcissistic whining of a…


Where Secrets So Heavily Weigh

Pan's Paths once trod now lie forgotten beneath the lines of ley Nomadic rites and mother goddesses crossed rivers in India some say Tablets cracked…