My Stomach Divorced Me
Published in Still Human (Falkenberg Press, 2025)
The Radioactive Horse
Published in Still Human (Falkenberg Press, 2025)
A Log Parable
My Grandma Madeline once told me a log family found security along a riverbank while a wolf disemboweled a man around the bent neck of an ephemeral flow. The man […]
Naked
Published in Still Human (Falkenberg Press, 2025)
I Screwed My Brother’s Head
on my Mom’s body because well we needed a weekend party. But now on the bee sting of a Monday morning, their corporate pronouns are all tripped up. […]
Past Life Reconstructed
I am a man though I believe I once breathed as a mother in low sunlight who drank milk from cows grazed in cemeteries. Under the same moon […]
Pigeon Survey
Published in Still Human (Falkenberg Press, 2025)
Don’t Lick the Wallpaper
Under a Saturday sunrise’s ascending heat, you scamper inside Grandma’s home. With a bucketful of revenge, you strip away a strip of Scheele’s green wallpaper. Through her bedroom door […]
Mama Universe
Remember when we stumbled through that hotel door with beef and wine sloshing around […]
Blood in the Cosmos
I got a sticker at the blood center for giving away eight pints over a year: O positive disbursed into alien veins yet can I call them aliens when my […]