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I found my brother’s body.  No one else thought to look.  To call him mangled would be  an understatement:  razors had lacerated the...

when my cat licks my palm,  i wonder what it’s like  to have a tongue  of stars.  “can you see them?”  i ask her. “the particles...

I’ve never met the person in my passenger seat, but  she smiles when I refuse her offerings of marijuana and psilocybin mushrooms. "I Got...

Some soothsayer told you it was me. Had to be. You’d know by the constellation of moles on my neck or the shape of my friendliness. He...

A bird leaps off a lamppost and falls into the sky as the voices in my cardboard living room turn into a neighbourhood seeking...

Once I met someone in the woods.  He acted like I met him on purpose. I didn’t.  He smiled antler  to antler, a smile not reaching his...

My apartment is a great lung, expanding, contracting. It is fit to collapse and suffocate its sole occupant. I am the wet nurse of the...

Often in prayer, one looks up to their god. Why up? If up is where gods live, how can a christian and a pagan live under the same roof?...

My Lady burns me with green leaves of poison ivy, tenderly sliming my crumbling cheeks that press against the mirror to watch her kiss my...

No gull-winged birdmen hang in this current and glide. Just two thrill-seekers strapped in a steel blue tow chair, suspended under a...

It is a revelation: Even the banal becomes momentous when you look at it with proper attention. Just point your phone skywards and...

I would go to war with everyone if more than harm could come. I could plead at the feet of a lesser deity  for retaining joy as red clay...

Our back porch faces west, across a thick wood. When the sun is  setting just above the horizon,  it shouts a resounding last call...

It begins with frayed rope,  It will end with the same.  Stretched, strained, suspended, Stuck up in the air, dangling and paralyzed,...

for every letter of the alphabet especially for the fuchsia fairy Sing to reading and rereading every single...

When I was a child, I believed  some crawled there in the gravel, falling God planted me in the deepest ocean  over a threshold  then...

Dante does not presume to call him by name But poet, father, master, teacher and guide. His respect seems paramount, but the words ring...

wisps of my mother’s Latin  haunt my head while  my fingers caress the water’s surface and I cross myself  In the name of the Father, the...

“Why is this night different from all other nights?” – From the Passover Seder Here I lie, chad gadya on my hospital bed counting my...

I hated so much in my life and still became something beautiful when I died. Here, slotted in the rock, I flow out. I’ll erode what’s...