Effigyville
When the old designer store downtown
went out of business and was razed to the ground,
the moldy crater where it had stood was adorned with...
Invincible
The babies made me invincible.
Even as they slept, they protected me.
Even as they slept, I could stomach the dark.
I could walk up the stairs,...
Dear Rhiannon
Dear Rhiannon,
Bless you for believing when I said I’d backup danced
for Paula Abdul. Bless your sister, who barely arched
an eyebrow when you, all awe,...
Megafauna
My hairstylist says
she loves Las Vegas
because it’s covered
in rhinestones.
I love rhinoceroses.
They are my favorite
odd-toed ungulates.
When rhinoceroses
get together
it is called a crash.
I would like
to get...
disperse
disperse you
trace me, trace me trace me back
until before you,
until before there was you--
forward until the after-effects of you wear off
how I never want...
Explosion Rocks Springfield
The Friday evening gas explosion in Springfield leveled a strip club next to a day care.
I remember the breeze right before…
Burst of—was it willow—slant-falling.
The...
Waking Up
A prose poem woke up in an alley. He was lying on the pavement among trash bins, empty bottles, cigarette butts and the smell...
The Wedding Toppers
A bride and groom, two figurines, topped a wedding cake. After the wedding photographer had backed into the cake to try to get a...
Bird Skull with [ ]
A poem of erasures and passages in-between, of negative space and images with holes right through the heart of them
Passport to Brooklyn
Have you forgotten which bus takes you
down Flatbush Avenue—ballpark where
on Saturday afternoons, a beer-bellied
mechanic rounded the bases all the way
THE KING DIED AND THEN THE QUEEN DIED
E.M. Forster’s definition of plot is less about plot
than the length of narrative you drag around.
You hear it all the time: after sixty years...
TO PARADISE, I GIVE MY HALF-FORGOTTEN DREAMS
I.
So this is
it. Is it
singular in itself
still, whole, inviolate
despite the many
depredations? You can
see slender branches
waving gently...