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 or beneath a roof of buckling pollution? After I read and wrote and screamed, it’s time I breathe — claim my Milky Way view like […]
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 God or Frankenstein? On a blood moon night, Scarlett declared on our shared crimson couch “I’m moving to an ocean shore room. Every morning, I’ll […]
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 to school with a blue head of cumulus clouds floating in my eyes. In first period, I gave a report on the […]
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 itself next to his larynx. She peered down to the fruit yelling fuck you — the first fuck ejected in the history of humankind. An […]
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 to reason with Fire but Fire wouldn’t listen to my turtle speak when Fire’s flame-bone body climbed trunks to suffocate leaves. Below Fire, my […]
Published in Red Ogre Review (December 2021)
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 that grows into humanity’s Band-Aid — ripped from our wound — a wound cracking the Zamboni business into Xeroxed memory. More than the […]
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 Ms. Sky’s black autumn lungs. Coyote hollers to his daughter to come witness a family of blue-rooted flames smothering the flesh of his father, her […]
Published in Flash Fiction Forum (2023)
Fox wades his auburn fur through a foggy Market Street’s concentration of bipeds navigating their marrow under muscle under memory selves. At 1st and Market, his hungry eyes spot the same auburn-haired woman he hurled words with down on a BART train. In a forested peacoat, she plucks out a strawberry from a transparent container. […]