2022-11-23

this morning back to work off to grind the burrs off student graphs & lines poxxed & pocked with ideas half-assed & three- quarters full another year older & none the wiser & at fifty-two I still think this is what I did with […]

2022-11-22

call for mr. hemingway It was dark. I liked the dark. No one could bother me. I sat there. I was cold, alone, in the dark. It wasn’t easy to sit there, but sit there I did. I poured myself a drink. Gin. I […]

2022-11-21

It was the woods but it was not the woods. Night sounds swaddled dying embers then the clearing was claws and maw and roaring. In the wood-dark with dagger in fist I leapt towards the screaming. Behind me Hafghar swore at his axe and […]

2022-11-19

call for submissions new literary journal seeks poems about your mother but not those kind & pays in guilt & copies; masochists & second daughters encouraged to apply; please see our website for examples of work we’d rather not see again, especially from you […]

2022-11-18

boom Nobody move. We’ve taken hostages. We have guns. We have dynamite. We have a bunch of C4 wired to blow. We have coffee. We have donuts. We have a creeping sense of ennui. We have no self control. We have headaches. Somebody call […]