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PoetryThe year of the tyrant’s final spring
I'm standing in a barren garden with Tolstoy, with Chekhov, and they are frozen in place, like stricken roses of January, like whipped horses,…
PoetryUkraine
There are so many ways to say it: on the verge on the cusp on the precipice on the brink of catastrophe, apocalypse, war.…
Fiction, PoetryTraveling West
I woke up this morning in Texas, and all I can think of is driving further, on to the coast of California, to golden…
PoetryA Sad Tale with No Moral
Growing up in Phoenix I thought exhaust fans in other people’s bathrooms were put there to remove the smells & I asked my dad…
FictionGo Fish
My father told me if I wanted to catch fish I had to think like a fish except he said it with an r like frish…
PoetryThe Business of Life and Death
It seems inconceivable, reading on a couch on a Sunday afternoon, that one day I’ll die and my decades of warmth will release back…
PoetryI watch the cartoon cat eat the cartoon fish
the fish dances around the cat’s sternum shakes ribs with its five-pronged fins not an animated gill out of place I turn off the…
PoetryI’m going to go look for a job tomorrow
I sit here, nowhere a place i was born in but it has changed and i am a stranger now, somewhere i try to…
PoetryThe Whole Day Went Dark
my testosterone has been chopped medically castrated by injection last week in prep for radiation treatments I couldn't hold my water today and had…
PoetryNo Sky for an Atheist
Last night I went down to the lake but the sky was what I really went for, so last night I went down to…
PoetryDragonflies
Always, there are voices that come, unchecked as the sound of water, lapping in the stone basin of the night fountain Some magnanimous, as…