not a eulogy but still what was it like, my father’s stroke, the sudden seize, fumbled & dropped keys & cops & flashlights & neighbors & behind the dumpster my father clutching his head & then the hospital & the nurses, the home & […]

spiral it’s not the end but only an exit so try not to get dizzy on your way out

it all comes down to this at one point you stop trying to impress yourself & just exist one breath after one breath after one breath after another & in the space between each you watch the crystals form & wonder what thin line […]

oh the horror think of the dryer swallowing socks: maybe the hunger will soon be sated; maybe their lint now floats across lawns unseen, maybe the socks are better off wherever they go, nothing holding them back from doing what must be done in […]

hero you should know better but that doesn’t stop you from leaping off the roof, immortal like all six-year-olds who believe a cape & under- wear grant powers magic & mystical but you are fifty-two so what’s your excuse?

Evil bananas plot to overthrow the state capitol. At night, mosquitoes fish for jelly beans beneath oil slicks. Badgers roam the interstate. Sometimes at night I hear cows arguing about the right way to pole dance. Badgers fight each other while alligators breathe. In […]

thursday night the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog & shot the damn cat with a grizzly gun but hey who is counting when no one is looking around in the woods? & did I tell you the elk have invaded the […]