for L. When you left me here to rot aboveground—preferring a disintegration undersoil, solo—they did not publish the story in the paper, this being in poor taste, your being far too young to die, the Star-Ledger style guide answering the … Read More
Here’s to the rubble: starlight starts to grow quietly. The world comes to chaos so quietly. Gravity promised to give up for a minute if we told it the things we know, quietly, so we let foggy breath … Read More
In Arkansas, five thousand blackbirds fall on New Year’s Eve, pepper kernels crunching up pavement. The street-sweeper parks and stares. Does not know who to call. The corpses are cleared but they keep missing spots, like when mother paid me … Read More
Chamomile tea gets me off More than getting me off does See also: girls laughing at my jokes & 90s video games Can we go back to your place? Sure, but only if you’re down To smoke dope & … Read More
Last night I caught you sleepwalking again: you stumbled to the hallway and curled your toes against the hardwood, spun like the skipping track of a cross-eyed orbit. I had forgotten what you look like off-balance. Your nightmares only ring … Read More
I took a bus home to your nightly reenactments, the ones performed before you ever hid your lighters or begged for air. My blood’ll sort it out, you promised, ignoring London and your heredity, all those veils of ash and … Read More
the clacking of his thoughts sound like the anxious machinery of a typewriter, ribbon unspooling into ink-laden pages hammered by shakespeare’s thousand sweatshop monkeys he dreams he just woke up to find his mouth open and full of flies: their … Read More
I am to have this gold when you die. To buy ink for poems crumpled on the carpet purchased with your cancer. You’ll make nothing as a writer. But my materials are cheap. Each verse I write about you merely … Read More
You wake up and the woman is gone. You wake up and the woman is on her hands and knees, keening Do you know where my eyes are? I can’t find them. You look and look. The expanse above her … Read More
