Bear in a Bowtie
One day, I decided that all my stuffed animals needed names and I would start alphabetically with my closest companion. This resolution came to mind…
One day, I decided that all my stuffed animals needed names and I would start alphabetically with my closest companion. This resolution came to mind…
The boy from across the street is slamming your head into the pavement, red bicycle abandoned on the sidewalk. You taste copper in your mouth,…
My body remembers pain. It’s like a prison locking me inside. My left eye jumps with nervous tension. The right eye wants no part and…
I poured a cup of calm but found a hole in the bottom…
She reminds me of geraniums, red bleeds into pink…
She says Black is the color of evil…
In a dream of journeys, we sit huddled in a boat returning from Ithaca…
The cellar
of my past
winnows
like a bundle…
Who mourns for these bluebells & buttercups…
there’s a hole in the rain
through it you can see your birth…
you school me in the drip living sun
up today so stained it high green…
Waking Up: The Interior Revolution. Preliminary notes…
During rituals of divination,
Mayan sorcerers and healers
induced risky hallucinations
with Brugmansia candida,
angel’s trumpet. The poison…
From wax, Leonardo
formed a doughy mass,
and when it softened,
he shaped it into
delicate animals
filled with air…
I hate them so much,
Why can’t I stop eating their food?
what’ll it eat? reindeer
lead you to sleepless summer nights,
the forest soon generating enough milk & meat
to begin breeding rich allergies
to hay & cities…
You put unbaited worms back alive after fishing,
reverse robin, pinky like bird‘s beak
into dirt, to give them a head start…
A little beetle, black and white, walks by on fitted bedsheet
as I wake up from my nap,
my lonely lover cuddlebug against my back…
From this moment on, you will love the act of moving. Leaving a place. Letting go…