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PoetryAubade
Sadly, I imagine you will wake, too, because the silence has changed colour, the way, fluting across a murky water, a swan’s light may…
Fiction, PoetryAir Bag
i have tasted air bag, it’s a badge of honor, a one-way ticket to epiphany, it tastes like burnt rubber, like powdery words sucked…
PoetryOkay, Then (A Boomer Replies)
with a nod to Joseph Rice We only rent the past from the shade of our declining tribe. They are our elders laughing under…
PoetryTo Stick Around
the times I pined to leave the city the clefts between myself and the friends I lost the jobs I lost, the plants that…
PoetrySelfie as a Dyke
The problem with being a dyke is standing in front of your mirror, naked, feeling both admiration & shame for the woman in front of you,…
PoetryThe Right Things
I eat a half dozen Funfetti cupcakes & then one more because I cheat on my diet & I cheat on my girlfriend in…
PoetryAmerica in 2019
(after Shelley’s “England in 1819”) A demagogic moron mad with power; his brood snapping their tongues at golden flies with reptile grins of brazed…
PoetryPoem in Which I Imagine My Dad Agrees to Shave My Head
When he asks why, I say because I’m out of money. & because I know there’s a shoebox in the garage with a pair…
PoetryComing Out
I didn’t really learn what bisexual was until college, part Intro to Women’s Studies textbooks, part kissing girls with boyfriends. The books spit out…
PoetryOld Maid
We all try to get what we can out of life. Me, I could make do if you give me a job that pays…
PoetryAnna and the Scourge
We memorized poems to pass them on, past the strident winds out of the Kremlin. When I walk the avenue lined with our history,…
PoetryHe Will Build Wings from Sheets of Paper
My friend, a poet, over a cup of coffee, depressed & roaming around in his head like a bear looking for berries while waiting…