3 “No one mentions her” poems
Another painting in La Galería Nacional In a change of tone so complete I dropped my chocolate milk which splashed hideously across my tennis shoes and caused a …
Poetry
Untitled Briny martini’s are just too grown up for me. I need to have something sweet after.
Poetry
Shouting into the phone over the sound of alarm bells, Diana Margeson, director of the Taylor-Massey Alzheimer’s …
Short Story
Bellicose, Varicose Brains -For Ashby Logan Hill -To be read to “Beautiful but Stupid” by Peter Brötzman *** Rock and rail, rambler, randomly reticent and rageful. Wriggle your …
Poetry

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Bear, Robin, Eggs
FROM THE PERSONALS: “Robin: Once there was a certain small bear who forgot 2 wish a certain spec woman …
Flash Fiction
Storm Warning; Breastroke
Storm Warning A cold grain of sand shuttles towards me, grips a lonely follicle with its sticky bulk. The bleached beach glares one sun beam to the wooden hull, heats …
Poetry
How to be an Artist?; the day of equal light
How to be an Artist? I feel trapped by my language, and don’t know what to do, because each and every day, I serve overpriced plates of fried …
Poetry
public beach and s is for negation
public beach you pull blades of grass twist them bow ties afraid to swim show your body I fall waves glide dumb eyes shut you sit on …
Poetry
Doctor Frog
The school year had been difficult for Filmore. It was hard for him to learn anything, especially as …
Short Story
Action; Angel Wings; Dance with Death; The Stream in the Meadow
Action At the Fiesta Lanes Bill bowled a strike. He jumped up and down and went back and took his seat near his Chesterfield smoldering in a tray.
Poetry
Great Expectations, in Retrograde
A strange new lust arose in young-man Pip as he watched Miss Havisham circle the repast and wedding cake, …
Short Story
The House of American Women
"Whose house is this? Whose night keeps out the light In here?
Essay
The Recalcitrant Forest
I didn’t want to come over because I had already bought a ticket to Pinocchio (live action), but …
Short Story
Bribsy the Rabbit
CONTENT WARNING: EXPLICIT AND GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONBribsy the Rabbit is a very funnyfull rabbit who loves to hop hop hop. …
Short Story
“Fisheye”
Fisheye under the ceiling you theorize what? subatomic vibrations clad to your knees Billy with two carrots in his mouth dipping into the water, dipping back from the …
Poetry
Quartz
Self-transcendence came formlessly and by chance. I noted the exodus of my blood into the forest soil but …
Flash Fiction
The Little Red House on the Avenue
The house I grew up in was red, and then one day, it was not. You painted it a yellowy shade of cream, and said it looked better, newer, …
Poetry
Drunk Cupid
The evening the mosquito showed up, Tiffany whipped fresh cream with a whisk in a bowl her mother …
Short Story
SHROOMSGIVING
“In the turkey? You put them in the bloody turkey?” Quail (named for the species) railed into Tavi …
Short Story
Scat!
“McDonalds”She made a meal out of his kids, while the cum burned up in her belly.“Earnest Drinks the Kool-Aid”JoJo …
Short Story
Jumpscare
after Gram & Emmylou I saw my devil he had a beer gut and an erection. I saw my angel she had a beer gut and a harp.
Poetry
city love poem; letter to a friend
city love poem he sees me running for the train, breath bursting, eyes manic, the glow of words saying south ferry ten minutes away. we make eye …
Poetry
Commencement Day
Tourmaline Tower rises 2,000 feet in the air, 160 floors of ombre pink and green, a sunset plunging …
Short Story
PAUSE (11-15)
PAUSE (11) Unadulterated niff of excess. A Sun Myocardial infraction Immolating – lurks.
Poetry
Guilty Pleasure in Fallen Friends
We called him Old School because he stood still against the movement of time.He stole things – CDs, …
Short Story
Venting Frustration on the Baseball Field, When the gods Retire (Willie Mays as a Met)
Venting Frustration on the Baseball Field When Roger Clemens, perhaps snapping in some steroidal spasm, Smoldering in combativeness, as if lathered in some tribal custom, Threw the barrel of …
Poetry
The Thread
Sometime after midnight, the thread unraveled. From where?
Short Story
Belgium Fog
I didn’t realize I had been lonely for so long until I stepped out of the Brussels Airport …
Short Story
the blue crab, runa the wise, a profile
the blue crab my father wasn’t interested in tennis or painting or gardening the only hobbies that interested him were ones that could make you money my father …
Poetry