Your father passed into thin air two years ago today, left you treading in salt water and frost. It was before the fuses detonated on...

This is not like the other times, of initial refusal, eventual acceptance, inevitable treatment. Unlike the times of womb, throat, and...

wraparound maybe it’s in the breath of It, how even menthol-wrapped, He can put life to it with a well-placed sigh, our arc a paper-thin...

So then, you take a toothpick, some tweezers of course you don’t want to clean your teeth, you just want to tear yourself apart. Building...

In your kitchen it will always be late summer, Bessie Smith churning through the blues, some piano fluttering to keep up. A CD whirs...

Tired of technocracy clear-cutting the valleys, a mountainside necromancer brings home the teeth from several steam shovel buckets,...

In Philadelphia, My Love We turned the streets of Philadelphia into fighting arenas when we’d drag our issues from jazz bars and take...

when we lived on the moon we danced to techno wearing spacesuits caught space rocks in tiny glass jars we laughed loudly in a dark sky...

Bathe your body with excellent fatty foods so that you burn more quickly. Go soft in the joints and hard places. Your cremation...

Reclamation Of A Land Once Stolen Her dress flows. Silk of mulberry heavied by tears. Yampee-eyed, cracked lips in the yolk of day. She...

FOXFIRE 7 Mama said I was born in the bathtub. Came right out the drain when she was getting ready to wash. The creek was low, that day,...

PUFFED UP From wax, Leonardo formed a doughy mass, and when it softened, he shaped it into delicate animals filled with air. He blew into...

Imprinted It’s something about time the torturous divine this image of tiny lizards scurrying ancient stone walls with which I remained...

Fuck, he's left the milk out, I can see it behind his head. And this meeting is due to last an hour, and I want to tell him, I cannot...

It’s April and there’s sticky apple blood on my chin, a rock in my pocket, and I’m simultaneously 48 and 12 years old: ready to explore...

I know what the caged bird feels, alas! - Paul Laurence Dunbar, “Sympathy” An Interpretation of Why Caged Birds Sing - After Paul...

Dreadlock Man Dreadlock man fi die alone As the slender figures with eyeless faces Pass without rhythm in their strides rightleftright...

There is something to be said about a black man who might make himself a bioethicist & clone his shame to be something preserved in...

Dollar store Conor Oberst with a Bandcamp account The Satanic Bible on your mantle and the Tao Te Ching on your nightstand – you dread,...

Spiritual Awakening cousin rolled up in grandpa’s backyard waiting for the one to come home grandpa said “you can’t control a man, but...