“Nineteen Ways of Considering Female Rape Fantasies,” “The Middle-Aged, Over-Ripe Woman, Who Used to Be Seriously Hot, and a Seriously Hot Mess, a Real Firecracker, as They Say, Settles in to Write a Poem,” and “Post-Pimp Restaurant, a Love Story”
Nineteen Ways of Considering Female Rape Fantasies for Karla Francis Smith, 1976-2003, and Jami Liz Macarty Wanting what she cannot want, what…
“Natives,” “The Island of the Fire Giants,” and “Rejection Letter”
Natives My street is home to everything from a dog hotel to a train station to a rowing club to a care home for old East Berlin drunks. The care home…
“Making Friends as an Adult is Hard” and “Don’t Tongue the Royal Croaker”
Making friends as an adult is hard My two-year-old son believes he can catch the sparrows. He flaps his arms. The birds cock their heads as if to say…
Trouble on Somerset
He’s out, With London, Hitting, Some of, Their, Usual spots, His London, Looking, So happy, They turn, Right, On Somerset, A fairly, Regular thing,…
“Collaboration,” “Trees,” “Chupa-Ku, Volume XIV: No. 66-70,” and “Five Sitchin Quatrains, Part II”
Collaboration sometimes a zombie is like a vampire infecting by biting humans like you but a zombie can walk in the sunlight something most vampires…
“Don’t Slap My Face,” “Dusk to Dark to Dawn,” and “The Turkey Vultures”
Don't Slap My Face It was in late summer, the last time I would ever see her. I came to the city for a few days--- the city where I grew up, the city…
“An Abortive Conversion,” “Post-Avant,” and “By Heart”
An Abortive Conversion No one would ever know how close he came To being saved. He was so heavy-laden, Ardent for rest; his life a worthless…
“London Helps,” “Requiem for Special Occasions,” and “A Writer Remembers”
London Helps He had a, Tough day, Those types, Of days, Happen, Sometimes, He’s just, Sat on, The couch, Having, A beer, Looking for, Something, To…
“Survival,” “Love is Never Allowed to Exist,” and “In a Public Square”
survival anger that never ending gift given to you by a father that never loved you a mother that cries herself to sleep each night recounting all…
Nostalgia Used to Be Considered a Disease
Close up the shutters, pull off the letters and watch as the plastic teeth rains caulk. Lock up the doors so the teenagers won’t break in to drink.…
