In the Beginning I Am Not
your body.
& so I hear
in the beginning I am not
12 & I hear hips swinging a wide bridge
a chorus swelling in the bass
of my ... Read More.
GBU – 43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (aka ‘mother of all bombs’)
I fall into the mountain side; I burn in
to the twisting serpent of chambers
hidd... Read More.
Within His Birdcage
Give me that handkerchief someone dropped on the corner next to the stand
where those suits are trying to swap sunlight for twenty bucke... Read More.
Black Dog Found
Behind some airport some quiet organ -ization ignites a portable flare stack. Cindy, whose depression is tropical, is not yet a hurricane. Like... Read More.
During a Beat Bobby Flay marathon I think —
I should study knife skills
or fish deboning. Have you
ever held fresh, dead chicken? I have
not, though, I have... Read More.
Diasporic Fever Dream
by Schneider Rancy
The river
splinters
its many
tributaries,
veins feeding
new shores
The cutting stone
juts
in the ... Read More.
Fear of Long Words
by Peter Verbica
Long after mother had said
“goodbye” to her piano,
Dad — dead drunk,
broke her mandolin.
In tears,
she ... Read More.
#MeToo
So #MeToo cuts her ponytail off, walks into a bar and takes a seat next to #MeToo and the bartender serves #MeToo whiskey from an eyedropper she pull... Read More.
Mark’s Tumor (When I Needed it Most)
“How quickly this life does go by.” Tonight
I wrote the last letters
to my poetry students. It’s always been hard,
di... Read More.
hit and run
Trees living in their skin-smell, Appalachia has no need of my white poet
blouse and ripped jeans. The world as I knew it, gone, white as cotton... Read More.
