Mutant
Published in Speculative City: Issue 6 Industry (2020) and Still Human (Falkenberg Press, 2025)
Published in Speculative City: Issue 6 Industry (2020) and Still Human (Falkenberg Press, 2025)
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?” […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Published in Someone Tell Us Where We’re Going: Poets Wanted Anthology 2020 (2020) and Still Human (Falkenberg Press, 2025)
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]