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PoetryAn Admission
It’s ridiculous to think we don’t disappoint someone every moment of every day. If father admits never having son’s back, it’s his revelation to…
PoetryOf the Moment
We will always have pariahs and darlings, wars and rumors of wars, plenty of old hatchets to exhume and soft centers to exploit. I'd…
PoetryLINES MADE OF SHATTERED GLASS
do not resuscitate this harsh dismantling of the self I cannot live this way any longer fractured dreams drooling out of my mouth as…
PoetryFitgirl Repack
the relentless drip drip drip tedium of my sobriety is matched only by the cliché predictability of a relapse so, i displace any program…
PoetryCowboy Coffee
I dreamed she got a tattoo my mother [didn’t even approve of tattoos] on her back she lowered her robe for me to see…
PoetryLast Call
The day she fell my mother had 30 rolls of toilet paper neatly on her linen closet shelves. The list of things I might…
PoetryDrawn to the Wilderness
The radio plays funeral music. Mother enters my dream, acknowledges love is a sail and sets me adrift. Perception is only one part of…
PoetryI stepped in vomit today
I stepped in vomit today it oozed between my toes I write this because it’s not everyday you step in your own filth wait,…
PoetryA dram for you, a dram for me
organs all thumping my bones a glistening forehead sweat gathering in small gangs raw fingers running around my temples cuticles gnawed away dried blood…