We Buried My Colorado Heart
on April 20th, 1999when garden soilheaped onto my organin a black tomb. At 11:29 a.m., I sought to fleeinto a library row’scompression of wordsfrom Dylan’s pump-action shotgun. Columbine is a […]
Voices
After I wrote a gentle villanelle, I dislodged my voice box, rested that weight next to the Remington typewriter I borrowed from Barry, my ex-brother-in-law. For the […]
Privileged Beauty
When a white popping sky buckles stars into constellations off a blacktop road, I ask my mind: how many can’t see redshift starlight as they breathe behind twenty-five-to-life metal […]
My Hairy Roommate
Over twelve lunar cycles, Scarlett’s hair got cyclically caught in the shower drain, a red knot I plucked out and added to the limbed body of my design. Am I […]
Blue Sky
When I slipped on a sidewalk, my skull split into a fissure. Blue Sky saw an opening, poured her body into my receptive head. So I went […]
Based on a True Story
Back in the beginning, Eve snatched an apple from a branch and tore her teeth into that red sphere. Yet when Adam swallowed the southern hemisphere, a chunk happily lodged […]
Turtle Justice
After Pablo Neruda’s Book of Questions And the Turtle replied: I saw my mother burn in a forest fire birthed by the flick of a cigarette. I tried […]
Fresh Trash
Published in Red Ogre Review (December 2021)
Branded
I’m Kleenexing my nose under a sky hosting another Virgin plane. We mirror nature’s flight as we plant Exxon seeds in Miracle-Gro soil packed in the stratosphere […]
Ms. Sky Thunderclaps
At dusk on his backyard square, Coyote drapes his father’s corpse across crawling earthworms in a shallow pit. Lighter fluid sprayed on, a lit match descends before smoke ascends into […]