PoetryFamous River at Night
Nobody ever called this place the Big Easy when I lived here a couple of hurricanes ago on some street I’ve forgotten. I’m back,…
PoetrySING, DAMN YOU
Let's not sit around waiting for friends who'll never show up—not with those soldiers outside. Wave them all in for a gin. I'd like…
PoetryThe Moon So Close
Where did you go, Ronni, Calli? I remember you, on a dark street years from here, your dad’s chevy slowly rolling by the bungalow of…
PoetryTOMATO SOUP WAITING ON THE STOVE
I am the son of a coffin maker; death will have no surprises for me. This was my life: Rise before birds open their…
PoetryTo The Silence
Useless to scream, shut the fuck up! so I've learned to disregard dogs next door barking from midnight till eleven but, the ice maker…
PoetryRemembering Sand
I saw Gloria Swanson drinking alone in the bar of the Royal Hawaiian, 1927. I saw white-gloved men bowing low outside black limousine doors.…
PoetryThe Patron Saint of Abandoned Watering Troughs and Salt Licks
I would like to discuss with you my identification with the cow leaning over a fence in this milk carton photo that Darigiold doubtless…
PoetryReasons to Send Advice-Givers On Their Way
What pointless advice came your way today, Bret and Li? I hope you did not fail to grasp that: “What doesn’t kill you makes…
PoetryEndless Rain and Wine
The rain came down all day, great bathtubs full for hours, and that whole bleak day, I did not get dressed until the sky…
PoetryWe will now inventory obsolete lonely sounds in the world
First, the old-fashioned dial tone, zenith of nothingness. Who invented that? The almost-silent radio after Country Carl’s sign-off prayer, Blues singer fading to needle…
PoetryRequiem for a Wrecked Weekend
Oh, for god's sake, let’s not talk about the coming winter or soldiers waiting outside, rifles readied— wave them in for a gin. A…
PoetryAfter You’ve Gone: Horses and Cigarettes
She calls to me across the pasture. Over here, I answer. Grasses shrink from her big yellow teeth as she approaches— weeds don’t know…
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