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PoetryI GUESS I COULD CRY WITH YOU
the neighbor next door is crying wailing really I can’t do anything about it but say it’s ok even though she can’t hear me…
Poetryedges
everything — even love — seems to have an edge to which all gravitate till it's reached — only to curve below, under —…
Poetryperennials
some pains of the heart never dissipate but rather sow themselves within the landscape of the mind as perennials of regret and remorse
PoetryTHE PLEASURES OF WORK
She screams at me over the telephone telling me I’ll be responsible for her death somehow it’s become my fault that she keeps her…
PoetryMY PAPAP IS IN THE HOSPITAL
my Papap is sick and in the hospital he’s 95 I can call to talk to him we’ve never known what to say to…
PoetryEXTRAMARITAL POETRY
writing a good poem about sex is like cheating on my wife without having an affair
PoetryTwo goats to the altar
Distant boys sing from distant hills. Not rice but raisins are thrown and the stones that lead are paved with lemon. I'm not sauer.…
PoetryArmageddon in my stomach
there’s a pain in my gut just below my chest where the whole world has blown up I am all that’s left which is…
PoetryEmpty Seat
Soon I will be going to a family reunion without part of my family, which makes “reunion” more like Lewis Carroll’s unbirthday party. A…
PoetryTHE OLD PICTURE OF GRAMPY
in your dusty faded photograph you finally look like a man who killed himself you have now left us with that you murdered yourself…