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PoetryNow that you’re asleep
The pinkie of your left hand is very small. You rarely ever finish almond milk, you make a face while eating cereal, always pull…
PoetryHow to Become Invisible
Lose your job, your mind, your husband step over the lines, off the map, into unmarked alleys Talk too fast, too much, too loud,…
PoetryWild-Flower Picker in a Straitjacket
In risking the dancing eyes of supermarket girls under fringes, or to chance the scanty graze on busy buses of a nyloned knee, or…
PoetryAhmed’s Sparrow
Tiny winged corpse, trapped inside the aluminum frame of a storm window; Ahmed freed the frozen, fragile body with his pen in hopes that…
Maria
I chase a cat who scampers across the beach. Her gait's mysterious; assured yet zigzag and every few moments she stops to tease. I…
PoetryAssassination of a Critic
"Rhymes in poems are dead," he said. I laughed and shouldered the bazooka, shook a Vicodin from the bottle and chased it with gin.…
PoetryLess Tomorrow
Fell asleep inside him after wind slipped through a window, found a crack into my absent mind. Tomorrow lurks around our edges, minutes fall…
Most times though we’d sit
Most times though we’d sit with trays on our knees the microwave cartons full of steaming food too hot to touch at the edges…
PoetryDaffodil Spikes and Tulip Skewers
We carefully handle our sub-zero Winter secrets. But like last year, they begin to dissipate from consciousness until, like barren tree limbs, we forget…
PoetryUnit 6
A couple of Bath Salts addicts moved in upstairs. Each night, the entire building can hear 'em eating each other's faces.
PoetryThe astronaut
The astronaut the man in the threadbare tweed says he’s laying low right now, coasting through, baby, paying off a few invisible debts to…
