Afterwards they lay in the room with the curtains drawn tight and shadows upon their perspiring skin. They lay without touching at first: she preoccupied with the privacy of her post-orgasm quivers, while he was simply too...

my girl woke up ringin’ satan’s bell actin’ crazy as a tweeker and illin’ like hell i thought she’d been voodoo vexed (unwrapped tight and ragin’ nutty-block) an obeah priestess hoodoo hex bought her flowers, diamonds,...

watering the bone white evens some symmetry a cold thing lending to the more: ill pour over that old road we were never...

in the end our hearts will triumph like cobalt roots pushing into moist earth intertwining caresses calm enough to bleed but taste like love-sharpened knives sliding through seams of old leather. dark as...

There’s nothing recessive about her that’s for sure. With an almost debilitating laugh, the contrast isn’t hard to miss. They’re an unusual shape, with corners turned down much like a frown. Like a shot of espresso; ...

It’s the end of March, and Marcus isn’t getting much sleep. When the ewes began lambing he moved out of the farmhouse for the season and into the small shelter in the pasturing field, as he does every year. It used to be an old...

Smooth 50/50 bar light slides over cement Leaves through the screen shine with godsmile And the sky matches through the gaps and through the screen and through the soft screen Somersault to ask why nothing really...

A piano-- slide of keys under pads pads to strings keep a linger fade the quiet frown hesitation skims the music back to facts-- paper leaves...

Wind, music, rustling pages, coughing, mug hitting a mahogany-surfaced table. Dog bark in the distance, evidence of a multifarious world with too much white noise for one poem to...

Pen hits paper Mind strides forward Ink attempts to follow A sometimes futile endeavor The thoughts march faster Than the pen’s faithful scamper Our words faulty shoes, Often we are torn Like th / is, In ha...

personal ad say: prince charming seeks submissive virgin princess bride will come on trusty steed dragon slayer and damsel-in-distress rescuer white knight, inc. newspaper say: dragon threat de-lifed, but brave...

...and on the last day, when the breeding currents slowed, uncoiled the last creature, and curled off into the sands to wither... ...where hot winds swept him up; scattered him on salt-choked fish, suffocated on...

Inside smells of familiar mustiness: dust, sweetly rotting fruit, fearful sweat. When you turn the key in the ignition, the engine gurgles, coughs in greeting. You pat the dashboard, ready for the ride. You weave along the...

The train rocked and cradled its passengers, jostled and hiccupped down the end of the Bay Area peninsula, away from the rolling hills of San Francisco. The click of the wheels against the rails made a hypnotic rhythm for them...

Welcome to Sentience—A response No one grumbles among the oyster clans, And lobsters play their bone guitars all summer. Only we, with our opposable thumbs, want Heaven to be, and God to come, again. There is no end to...