Eventually, we stop counting; the final bird of prey rips out the throat of the penultimate field mouse and dies soon after. Beyond its understanding, a trail off a...
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I wanna grow up like my dad—planning to leave my wife with my mistress waiting in the gravel driveway at dusk. It would be...
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Illustrations

Illustrations from the book Ghost Highway Blues, poetry by Matt Borczon, published by Alien Buddha Press.
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Bliss

I took out the darkness​ and added an em dash,​ for now​
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morning hillside fifty little goat butts winking at the sun ex-wife's razor  surprisingly good seemingly free Dry day, empty house—    the barely swinging door          applauds The wind blows—       not to move the trees             but the...
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one day a year the sky turns violet motorcycle exhaust floats up and dissolves against a hard sun they rev their engines until their eyes turn to coal the missing brothers on the black wall are still gone
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Just a Faint Line

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Tony The Lip

was older than he looked, was impressed by the smell of his own farts, lied about everything, never held a job for long, ate everything, drank anything, and changed his shorts no more than once a week. Tony had 3 bad marriages, 4 shack-ups, and that...
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Poem read by by Soodabeh Saeidnia in the Farsi translation she created: https://soundcloud.com/soodabeh-saeidnia/a-messiah-morning This is one of four Silent Lotus poems included in the bilingual anthology Persian Sugar in English Tea,...
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My mind is a musty record crate. Schlepped around. Only exposed to monthly swap meets, and nostalgic nights. Brush decades of debris from my mental music (re)collection, hoping to...
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The day was so tender it almost broke (us) in two the buds on the trees lime-toned and ready to uncoil the doves not yet married, nestless A squirrel...
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The sex falls in flecks and sputters as the limousine windows slide down ...
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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide...
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Glitch

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TIMOTHY

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Collision time

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One day on the back porch many years ago, catching some rays, sunning, as it were, after the wife had been fired for crimes against nature, self and...
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Don’t ask me

for poetry, I can't give you poetry—I'm not one of those poets writing for four hour periods each morning with french-pressed coffee I can't give you words that will always make sense and...
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I disappeared

into you and it felt like the womb I had left 5 days early. I crawled under you like winter cats in car tires I dropped my steel and stayed in your...
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The flame’s reflection on the television was so crisp like it was real and soon the stereo was on fire. Then the couch would...
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What about us

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DOOR MAT

I can still remember how annoyed he got the first time I used it, “Door mat,” the way his mother let a brute of a man walk all...
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F A M K E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NvHJSpI5Zs
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After

Steve Richmond was a mainstay of the American little magazine scene of the 70s and 80s. He gained notoriety not only for his extensive...
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You can bitch about quality all you want & make your anal compulsive lists the best school the best fuck the best career the best italian sausage & then 30 years removed or maybe 40 you realize no...
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I need more

https://soundcloud.com/user-151672534/i-need-more-2018-edition
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Andrea

Oil Pastels, Colored Pencils, Graphite, Lithography Pencils, Bleed Proof White, Digital Paints on Photograph.  © 2011 Thomas Yarbrough
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The Bird

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzwgB7EEZbU The bird circles endlessly in my room, in the half-light— comes close, carries the harsh carnival of his eye to mine, causing my neck to fall...
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Lo-Fi

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Hangman

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OMAHA

When fathers stopped wearing fedoras at ballgames unity and chaos wrestled in the mud.                               • When fathers stopped telling the old jokes quills grew on the tongues of...
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Jimmy

Just got off the phone with my Uncle Jim 2 years, 11 months, and 14 days in FCI Memphis behind him. He’s the one who taught me how to play drums....
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Ku Mi Ko

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Moving Day

Lena, across the street on her porch step clutching her robe closed against the afternoon sun. ashtrays neat stacked full of half smoked Kents. in her bedroom a real live...
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Have Made It

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnoTelwXuww
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MA RI A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=78&v=3AIzoMJURAE
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I don't wanna pay April's rent I just got an email (and they never send them) that said Hey, don't forget to pay April's rent. I was...
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Field Poppies

1. 2. Watercolour on L'Aquarelle Canson Heritage Block 300gsm cold pressed. Watercolour paper - 51cm x 34cm.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZd4Ats7DRI
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Visual Kei

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You Never Asked

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