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PoetryDeath of a Horse Chestnut
I’m waiting for your carcass to be stripped of all its withered foliage by the gales. Your leaves were screwed and twisted back in…
PoetryHow to Gut a Carp
Keep her in the dark. In water. She's no good dead. Gotta cut her while she's fresh. Slip your chipped knuckles into her accordion…
PoetrySightseeing
Instead of travelling to a place I’ve never been to see something I’ve never seen, I prefer the seclusion of my backyard. Marveling over…
PoetryThe first time I French kissed you
was the same as the first time I kissed a girl the same as the first time I kissed anyone. My tongue in your…
Poetrybirds and other fly creatures
everything gone flaccid my droopy blue suede strap on little anchors in clouds precipitated worms choke fly crows like bags of black keys not…
Poetrywork
he only hires pretty girls i knew that as soon as i handed in the application the rest of the cashiers are brooding brunettes…
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…