I’m always so much smarter when I talk to you in my head a cinema smile, stars leaping off my tongue like kamikazes we never needed those...

I have seen suffering It even has a scent You tip your poison and gulp the numb Words slow, steps falter Pitch changes, eyes flutter Rock...

One night, I got on my hands and knees and crawled back to the night that boy flung his tongue down my throat. All around me, massive...

Misandry I’ve known too many men who are only brave about the wrong things and whose swarm of tiny silences over dinner cram their way...

the evidence he left after he died, I wandered the stacks to find asterisks penciled over seven letter words in the Miriam Webster the...

Origami I only find you in the dark. Groping for a door handle when all is black glass. Just clocks picking locks. Everyone hates us our...

Her Last Room She asked to keep the windows open all night. With greeting cards collapsing under dust, cobwebs blanketing bouquets, Lucy...

Someday In one thousand years (if I can wait that long) I shall reemerge as the red-winged blackbird I wrote about clinging to the tall...

Poetry Reading (Explanation 1) Everyone expects a poem to rhyme at some time or another. My brother blames it on those creatures -...

Running in the Winter silence, The season holds its breath. The sky, A wrapping paper blue Gifts us a perfect Winter scene. Ice...

On Contemplating Consciousness Open sky with whittled clouds splintered by rain. A bitter tang loops through ideas of matter that shore...

a frantic species she walks so slowly you can see the wicker becoming a basket and then she bends over to pick up a penny but, it’s...

Ghost Apples Gothically sublime as Frankenstein’s monster, they hang as fruitful impostors, bending boughs under icy loads: ghostly,...

I’ve looked up at this building many times, from a cardboard city. It might as well be a different planet, made for those whose lives...

The Sounds & the Hiker Down in the valley, you hear a Whole plethora of noises - loudest are Croaking & barking; halfway Uphill, you hear...

She reeked of debt, despair, and a litter box that hadn’t been cleaned for a week. She bulged in all the wrong places. He reeked of...

the way that she looks in both directions as she boards the c train, as she focuses her eyes on the people around her, hoping to see the...

The sky falls to the ground it looks like small pieces of shattered glass a bit like water a bit like a broken lake of water you pick up...

Christmas Boxes They have been roaming streets and avenues long before honest souls had awakened into another Monday. It was to be a...

On the Shawangunk Mountains behind the Correctional Facility, I trip on boulders I cannot see in low luxurious slanting sunlight....