POETRY
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Marriage Poems
"In her dream, my wife said I abandoned her in the middle of a strange city forcing her out of our car." Read more
Sappho Questions Medusa
"Desire, he said, wants what is not in reach. So reach for me and dance me out of death." Read more
Burnt
There was a fire in your former home, it was on the news. You brought me here, once, in my youth when nothing impressed me. Read more
October 1869: to smoke their pipes and sing their songs
"lug like trunks,/ steer like plows/ pile like lumber..." Read more
Harm Reduction
"It’s 6 a.m. when the lights turn on / in a white-washed drugstore, / as if it were a little theatre / shining out onto the sidewalk." Read more
1827 Sul Ross #1
"Had hardwoods and crown moulding / I thought I could afford. I signed the lease, / sick of driving everything I owned" Read more
Stanza Is The Italian Word for Room
"On benedick’s retirement, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the catholic church" Read more
Failed Seances for Rita MacNeil
"Rita, we are both members / of the fat neo-Scottish diaspora. / Don’t tell me it doesn’t exist, sweet darlin’" Read more
Festivities
"anything you wanted to keep had to be taken off your balcony / then on that day, Balcony Day / whatever items were still left out there disappeared" Read more
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