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PoetryThe Duck Had Me
A five year old stuck in no-child's land between The hospital and the duck. The hospital had my mother, The duck had me. Once…
PoetryWho Will Find Us?
I want a larger territory than a screen and two fingers allow. Give me maps impossible to fold back correctly. It would not frustrate…
Poetryaverse
. more than ever i need an enema or an island of my own the general public can no longer determine squirm from quake…
PoetryThe body of Christ
Holy man, with a common farmer tan, I watch your metamorphosis into god. An exhibitionistic affair I am your favorite voyeur. Eyeball plastered to…
PoetryThree Doors
Fragrant grasses that covered me. Packed earth by fire, tending. Slow walk with an aging dog, morning or twilight, it is the same. Open…
PoetryWHERE THERE’S VANITY, THERE’S HOPE
I won’t wear the KN95 knock-offs I ordered from Amazon, the horizontal seam like a duck’s bill. Imagine the waitress, straight-faced, asking, “want quackers…
PoetryRadiation Oncology
Space Hydrogel Nurse inserts lifts to hold up my calves. Stirrups, I think to myself: this must be what it's like. Oncologist appears between…
PoetryTHE CLEANER WHO HATES MEN
When she spreads butter across toast she’ll find herself thinking of jumping out of a window paranoid thoughts fears certain foods her Nan’s boyfriend…
PoetryAfter Seeing You in Sullivan’s
How did you answer, when your friends asked, Who was she? "Someone who meant a lot to me once. But that was a long…
Poetry.shelter.
we walk your district quietly. wait in the shelter. I will quite like a wild rumpus here some time.
PoetryHe’s probably sleeping now
Moon sunken and cloth His head resting on the crested pillow, a cacophony of arms Belly, soft and strumming It's dal for me tonight,…