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PoetryA Pretty Face
She had scoliosis which left her with one hip at 2:15 and one hip at 2:35, one a summit, one a foothill. No one…
PoetryBilly Joel
Five years after she walked out, leaving me behind with a drunk dad and no way to reach her, Mom called, not to see…
PoetryDear Charles Bukowski,
I have a bird in my heart too. I realized it in 2004 when your poem came across my desk in the form of…
Poetry4 a.m.
her voice low on the phone, she tells me about trying to die. I squeeze the phone try to block out what I hear…
PoetrySnowmen
The children flew and snow-hush fell upon stone and of a morning the soft tattoo of feet on felt froze pitter-patter meaning. He bends…
PoetryNo Memory of the Wind
The dead leaves on wet grass have no memory of the wind that blew them there or anything else they endured As the broken…
PoetrySour Moon
Black tea cools, bitter cup; sun sets soon; little lemon wedge drowned at the bottom, sunken yellow crescent, solemn, sour moon.
PoetryThings I Said to My Therapist
With eyes closed I see snapshots. Flipped in chronological order I see myself changing. It’s all black and white but I wish it was…
PoetryAt the Casino with No Money
you know those people who come around, give you free drinks, well one lady's dreadlocks latched onto me, spiraled around my leg like a…
PoetryMissing (for my grandparents)
Their smiles are bleached from the photo baked brown. They escaped from the homelands that wanted them gone, erased, dead, forgotten. A soundless escape,…
PoetryBACK IN THE EARLY DAYS OF COVID
back in the early days of the plague I drank Coronas in protest of the virus my wife and I were told we would…
Poetrythree exes
he ate pork skins with hot sauce on the sagging brown sofa, drinking beer from a can, watching NASCAR in faded blue shorts and…