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PoetryPoem for Bobby
Let's unwind the world a little for you and the curly haired girl in your class. For your parents, your aunts, your cousins and…
PoetryPain Scale in the ER
She wants me to calibrate against the wing-beat of searing fluorescents, the examining room bright with her skeptical forbearance. I tell her since I've…
PoetrySwamp Thing
It came from the depths of the sewhers of New York: Pasty faced Flaming orange hair Highlighted, feral raccoon eyes Swamp Thing Decades in…
PoetrySnapback
I tried to catch a snapping turtle in an old tin pail. She ducked and dove. I hopped and turned. It was to no…
PoetryI’m Heading South
As the days draw in I will head south, past the lake’s glacial blue, up the curving road where the mountain shines, beyond the…
PoetrySofter Truths in City Parks
I found them there in a still spare spring under cottonwoods grown in unnaturally straight lines in small-eyed ducks and a young girl balancing…
Poetryafter the reading,
a reporter for the student paper asked me what career i would take if i wasn’t a writer. i looked at him and said:…
Poetry, ShowcaseSome Men
So when he left I longed for the old house I had. So often, late summer in that house, marigolds on the steps for…
PoetryVoid
We will speak, all wind and hail icy tambourine of tin roof or nights I sat on your bed folding warm towels, pairing socks,…
PoetryOFFICE THIEF
I’m not hungry. I appraise the contents of the office fridge anyway: a carton of soy coffee creamer, three sack lunches, a four-pack of flavored…