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 open like Saturday morning eyes, you spot Wolf smiling while splayed across the bed clothed in a crimson Victorian dress’ disguise. A candle’s swaying light […]
Remember when we stumbled through that hotel door with beef and wine sloshing around inside You buckled before the burgundy curtain pulsating color when my gravity-strength […]
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 hemoglobins flows through consciousness of Homo sapien cognition. Free of headlight stain along a farmland road, I look upon the cosmos like a body […]
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 deaths we’ve vaulted beyond. Are we ready? Start with the perfect embryo. Cells divide into an engineered self offering cognitive muscle and […]
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 your queen bed like her bad college boyfriend before you. You need to know: why does her shadow still sleep in a sophomore dorm […]
Published in Still Human (Falkenberg Press, 2025)
Published in Still Human (Falkenberg Press, 2025)
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 on cement. Sammy slammed The Jameson Special. The sting kicked his eyes when a welder slapped his back. Ain’t that better than heaven? Twisting his […]
Her body speaks in canopied shadow. Stepping into starlight, her mind speaks before a crowd of leaves listening through green attention. Her body speaks against glossy beauty painted over rough happiness. Her mind speaks to bark vaulting into black. The skin gods roar back.
Night arrives on four haunches when I kick the capsule hatch free and flounder through a New Mexican night. An alpha to my voyeuristic species, my claws skitter-scatter over a bareback dirt field away from the smoke billowing from my cigar roll vessel. Slap me now. The dominion back home will lick their gills […]