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 […]
Family Planning in the Twenty-Second Century
Scrub out mutated genes giving rise to mutated bodies, bodies we don’t want circulating in our better society. Lewy minds and cancered lungs float in history, twenty-first century […]
There’s Birds In Your Marriage!
On a sandy rock outside your shoreline window, a Blue-Footed Booby mocks your sexual stumbling as you try to caress Sandy’s right breast but she pushes you out of […]
City Brain
Published in Still Human (Falkenberg Press, 2025)
I Woke Up
Published in Still Human (Falkenberg Press, 2025)
Sammy the Angel
Seven years into divinity, Sammy plucked his translucent wings free. He needed to slip onto a bar stool without the pressure of sainthood pressing down like a crushed dragonfly dead […]