THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CHILD Everyone settle down and gather ’round as today we study, newly-discovered, the twenty-first century child. Note the tattoos threading through its body. Ink oozing out…
Category: Poems
I RINK THEREFORE I CARE Signs of intelligent life / A concrete layer of zero is the lie between to feel Safe and warm for another house of construction.…
BONES 1. they sit at either end of the bed. her breasts spilling out over the top of rumpled bedclothes. stilted small-talk as she examines her hands. she catches…
VIRTUE FAQ Not everyone loves you. Most social interactions between people fall into one of these categories; Friendly, Romantic, Mean, Funny, or Special. Once you are able to see…
SHORT CUT THROUGH A CITY CEMETERY for Sina Queyras the world last night is the glow shelter lame he was and is no colder you who know hit upon…
THE COLD WAR WAS MY PARENTS’ WAR I am matri-/patri- liminal, co-conceived by seven generations of mothers and fathers at a time travellers’ orgy in an act of…
FOUR POEMS somewhere between 5 & 25, i began to see umbrellas totally differently * so often i wanted to taunt you with my ill- equipped hips…
NORMAN BATES Pupils. Shiny and black as crow feathers. Smiles like Tippi Hedren’s gold necklace. Mother. Punctures her bird calls. The shower curtain pulls. THE VERTIGO EFFECT…
MEMORY LANE You press your body against the railing of the ferry holding a globe, ready to drop it into the inclement waters of Lake Erie hoping that the…
HAT TRICK Instructions: Cut each of these six stanzas out, put them into a hat, and draw them at random, reading aloud as you do. The only part of…
“MALES DO JUST PLAIN STUPID THINGS WHEN THEY ARE BORED SOMETIMES” f.y.i. existence fucking sucks. your poison? your curves aren’t soft they are adamant like embarrassing drunks you can’t…
MATINS giggle-gurgle bird bath prattle wet sunsongs stir my ruminations this morning glory startles garden bee & boozy flies bizzzz buzzz zzuzzzz neighbour’s weed whacker thwacks her dog barks &…