poetry

Something Weirder

Maudlin House wants me to write something weirder— It’s a no on the love poem in the style of Yeats. Fair enough. “Never give all the heart” and all that… Ma...

sober sunday

no more shots. no more half- pours. no more bellying up   to sip high-octanes straight   from the source. only raisinless organs—no ...

DIAMOND LIFE

Two blitz kids tumble out the photobooth, a lipstick mess of highball spill and hands all over each other. As their teeth clack, their cheeks flare with Day-...

Read It and Scream

(after The Blob That Ate Everyone by R.L. Stine) There’s a scene in my story where the blob hides in the basement, licks its lips hungrily, waiting for fre...

dinghy

Oh my gorgeous gremlin chipmunk baby I   Love you I Love you I Love you and I   Need you inside of me ew gross not like that   ...

Moon in Scorpio

Once over, and once over the moon. Your memory lingers; I’m afraid of knowing how to be or be still; the latter is misnomer.   Someday the m...

Bed Ridden

A caterpillar writhes in the water. I place it onto dry land. It dies out of spite.   I come to the lake to meet the butcher. Exchanging rot...

Dark Neon Streets

Late-night summer walks under the black glittering sky 
through lit up blue neon streets to the corner store, 
hugging each other tight, holding his back and 
h...

Vegetables

Outside working. Texas Summer. Hot as fuck. 103 in the shade, man. Transistor radio tuned just right as always. Turn To Stone by Joe Walsh. Fuck yeah. ...

Child Proof

You grab the glass bottle from the vanity you built for me. “What’s this doing here?” Men love to take away my baby bottle. “You’re not drinking today, you’r...

Tattoos

Baltimore blue tattoo of a womans head on right upper chest blue tattoo of 2 hearts & name charlet ann on right upper arm blue tattoo of woman wearing a ...