The Dreamery Inshore
A dreamed ship has gone aground at the most marvelous and dreamiest afterglow. The mast adverts to orientation of a tender Morning star. Seafarers…
“Blood Freezing Even as it Spills” and “Tamerlane is in the Black Tent”
Blood freezing even as it spills I squeezed the trigger On the Winchester repeater, Felt the spring of recoil Like the bounding of a hare. And the…
Psycho
translated by Xi Nan I: Depression If you hide into my childhood and cry I am your tears The childhood in a black and white photo The thin figure cut…
Honeymoon
Rosina “Springtime” Fresh out of fairy tales Looking for the blue prince Charming of her childhood dreams Already made a woman She was strolling…
“This is Not a Garden,” “Pentalogue,” “Riverthought,” and “Blackberry—ing”
This is not a garden Under the trestle I pressed my flower to pieces, trying to remember the last time…
“Grand Canyon,” “Just Desserts,” “In China, Bathrooms Have No Stalls,” and Other Poems
Grand Canyon Men I know have given up. We are all told it is biological. Our bodies know the difference. Titty-bars attract the most. My best friend…
“Every Sense of Reality,” “Worth the Pain Anymore,” and “That Sad Sack of Life”
every sense of reality these are the days where i realize i didn’t do enough drugs in my life didn’t open my third eye wide enough to drain every…
What Do the Friar and the Lord Priest Wear Under the Cassock?
My mother, with love like a chicken Brought me to the Segovia Seminary on a she donkey. My mother said to my father: -Husband, give the she donkey,…
“The Whale,” “Five Minutes Later He Blocks Me,” “Show Me a Cliché,” and Other Poems
The Whale He’s fifty-five years of smug blubber, a bored heir to a lucky fortune who can barely walk on the vestiges of his legs bumbling in the…
“Life,” “Poet,” “We Who Are Forever Damned,” and “Requiem”
Life And we adhere to dreams… Resonating in the blue-green veins, Neatly coiled between the Sharp-edged bones carved out Of lust and mortal needs. We…
