Mutant
Published in Speculative City: Issue 6 Industry (2020) and Still Human (Falkenberg Press, 2025)
Skull Walk
Coyote shambles north along San Pablo Avenue. At the West MacArthur Boulevard intersection, he trips over a skull. “Oakland, what is this white sphere my paw crushed a hole through?” […]
East Bay Seed
When the rat climbing up the wall makes a seedy flower go bloom, my organs rearrange themselves in frightful frenzy. Rat fur does that to my nervous system. It’s […]
Stray
When a stray bullet is a stray dog, a stray dog barks within a chamber of anger before runaway legs unhinge themselves from a gun’s steel ownership to […]
Sister Hunting
When the Sunday morning sun hands out sunburns like maternity ward newborns, I sprint through that neonate heat. At the junction of Love & Am I Alive, I […]
I Left My North Oakland Shadow
Published in Someone Tell Us Where We’re Going: Poets Wanted Anthology 2020 (2020) and Still Human (Falkenberg Press, 2025)
We Smile Back
The lamps in our lives gaslight our eyes until we walk out the screen door to welcome autumn moonlight into the sweep of our sight gazing upon the […]
Protests Whip Oakland’s Bones While I Go Hunting for a Bookshelf Online
when I come across a commanding one I bet my books will claim as their home. In the question section, a customer asked if this bookshelf comes armed. Will a […]
Dementia Descends
An owl family descends upon my grandfather’s synaptic membrane as he digs the final period on a postcard to his wife he will only remember in the past tense. […]
A Finger Skyscraper
I know I’m unremarkable. I’m one of 8 billion human beings all with a pulse vibrating through limbed consciousness. By my math, the Earth hosts in the grasping range of […]