The Tequila Shot ~ long lick of the tail feather flick tapering tail like a grass blade glass blade shoot of a cry and a gulp and a green...

For Butch Baristas and Platform Docs My friend hand-crafts bulldog harnesses the style you always said would look great after you got top...

For the love of Physics Oh my little vector, how I follow thee -hither to thither- thou art better than any scalar. Your resistance...

I Loved You Differently but I Loved You the Most Remember that summer workshop when I alone defended the whole of your second draft? My...

Fishing the Dawn Day again breaks grey, briny mist rising from the wild sea. Into the froth a quartet wades, clad only in thin briefs,...

Awoke at 12:12 on the 12/12/21 and thought about words and how dogs laugh where we can see it and cats where we do not. The way ice cream...

I don’t know what the fuck is wrong with me every night too much birthday in the big city the craziest year of my life & Kendall Roy that...

Two Shades of Green Hopeful soul stands alone, calling to fate with come-hither eyes. Self-abandons at opening credits, never reviews the...

A Bible brond woman blows out unruly brunette hair, darkens your virgin eyelashes, light lengths, “who knew those were there.” Unholy...

porchlight-lit lovers, they spoon tabby over white— dream their own warm home. let the sun burn out, freeze black, so as not to...

CW: Sexual abuse I listen to a survivor of incest telling an interviewer about how there were days when we would sit as a family for a TV...

blake's opinions over his digestif (strega) they were sitting around after dinner his daughter told him that none of the girls in her...

Blue Fire When in the morning, the star grass Freezes like frostweed, I feel at home. Save for this brown button-up, which chokes Half my...

How would they know? in the moments before freezing to death warmth overcomes you like a blanket of acceptance like an embrace of...

The hunter is haunted by images of a home he once knew, destroyed — a deconstructed fox hole, a pile of sticks and stones patiently...

Handyman Special Handyman Special: it’s just right for someone with a few skills, some time on their hands and some elbow grease. That...

Two Returns to Water I’m so tired. I should be writing but instead I scan the room for spiders, the Adderall waxing off as the images...

magnolia’s cream-mottled cheek marking yet another bygone era plunked into the abyss as sorrow burrows into our roots, unfurling our...

Lucky Reincarnation or the blue hope of heaven carry no promise. Maybe I will lay in my shell, and drift away slowly or be suddenly...

How do I look darling? Everybody is a drag queen in life manicured in silky garbs or wax museum faces to suffocate their inner skin. On...