In the Death of Your Boyhood and Birth of Your Teenagehood,
do you remember the hooded memory of when your father grilled a slaughter of steaks on a July 4th grill that swung open like a carnivorous mouth? In your teenagehood’s […]
To the Daughter I Won’t Father,
you’re shriveled up like a raisin within my raisin-skinned right testicle in a XY body I’ve claimed possession of since a C-section slice when my mother gifted me life under […]
Into Lawful Nature
At the beginning of a new episode during a Law & Order marathon, mom screeches out find the murderer. So I propel out the back door into unfilmed darkness defined by predator-on-prey […]
In Reflection, I Screwed My Brother’s Head
Published in Still Human (Falkenberg Press, 2025)
Chemo Visit
As I drove to the hospital to visit my friend Billy during his chemo treatment, a stray lightning bolt struck a eucalyptus on the side of a wooded road. When […]
A Zombie in Mountain View Cemetery
Under an onion moon sliced into an Oakland sky, I move within the skin of an Evil Dead Zombie over mummy brown soil. My brain is rolled tight like […]
When a San Francisco Wind Shoved Me Back
on 7th Avenue like a 7th grade bully, a mind in the wind flung my flimsy self about. I still lurched forward a block from Golden Gate Park’s shuddering leaves. […]
When I Dash Across a Don’t Walk Intersection
at 40th and Broadway, Death’s warm body almost hugs me as a SUV almost flattens me into one of Mama’s blueberry pies hot from a Thanksgiving oven three […]
A Preschool Teacher’s Greeting
Published in Still Human (Falkenberg Press, 2025)
Falling
I stumble into my skinny studio at Avenue C and East 4th. After a double bodega shift, I fail to dish out a fresh offering of Sally’s high-protein low-carb salmon-flavored […]