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PoetryLaplace’s Cat
is the player who wins when you lose at solitaire and whose cosmic background purr is easily taken for the mutterings of God.
PoetryA summoning
I summoned you with oil and incense with holy thoughts in a great cathedral with the patterns of light through stained glass with wounds…
PoetryNovember
I love the warmth of fresh tears as they pool around my eyelids, how the wind cools them and takes them into himself while…
PoetryI Was Meant For More
I was meant for more. Teetering on the edge of grief and hope, brushing tears from cold cheeks. “I wasn’t a problem, I was…
FictionThe Airport
“Look at me, sir. Are you carrying any prohibited items?” I look right into his eyes. My jaw locks. I can’t find a normal…
PoetryAfter the wedding party
In the mouse-creak hours of a country inn night the harvest moon lit up a painting on the flaky wall - a cottage, a…
PoetryMuerta
If you have died, …all the leaves will fall in my breast, it will rain on my soul night and day, the snow will…
PoetryMyth
“Let’s make up a story Of how we arrived here.” -Adam Clay Maybe we are the flinty point of an arrow God shot from…
PoetryWeeds
Father hated weeds He swooped on them in the fields, slicing off purple heads, thumping a grubber into the hard ground to ferret out the…
PoetryCounting the Homeless
Like a crumpled paper bag, she lay in the bushes behind the gas station. We noticed her because of a shoe-less foot glowing in…
PoetryIn the Vein
Vancomycin and Ceftriaxone drip from bags Into the PICC lines of patients Who rest in mismatched recliners. This room reserved for victims of infectious…
PoetryHell isn’t empty
Hell isn't empty it’s just off kilter. The schemers and the treacherous marginalized to make room for the brutal, the vulgar and the blood-simple.…