A selection of poetry from Still Human in the Present Poetry Podcast: “Rubber Magic,” “You Should Be Fatter,” “The Radioactive Horse,” “Past Life Reconstructed,” and “I Screwed My Brother’s Head.” Published in Still Human (Falkenberg Press, 2025)
Published in Still Human (Falkenberg Press, 2025)
White or brown? If my white skin picks white eggs, surely I’m suffering an historical flare-up to America’s racial flavor. Between caged and free- range brown, I grab the $5.99 free-range. I’m looking to eat eggs born from unshackled mothers. Out of Duboce Triangle’s Safeway, I trot across Market, skip down Dolores. All the […]
at Broadway and Grand yet its name just leaped off my tongue like my great-uncle Gary who leaped off the Golden Gate Bridge to his Pacific Ocean coffin. They never found his body like I can’t find the name of that Grand Avenue café. On a grand ultraviolet day, its walls got smashed by a […]
Published in Still Human (Falkenberg Press, 2025)
Published in Still Human (Falkenberg Press, 2025)
Published in Still Human (Falkenberg Press, 2025)
Published in Still Human (Falkenberg Press, 2025)
Published in Still Human (Falkenberg Press, 2025)
In his Manhattan bed, Pablo shrieks over street honking. Belly-flopping down, he finds his after-dinner smoke beside a turkey thigh taunting his subtraction. How cruel he mutters to Sally. Sally purrs with laughter as Pablo duck tapes his hands to vault his torso up, plop onto the windowsill like a bear […]