Honeysweat Twisting in damp sheets, we seek one cool place. Southern air still as death smothers sleep. Heat lightning bursts behind pine trees. Fireflies’ faint flashes signal summer. Years before conditioned air Daddy builds a fan. Sweet relief, drawn across... Continue Reading →
Backwards I Walk Backwards I walk With a lump of sorrow In the pit of my stomach Not again, whisper my heart Can’t take it no more To be a stop gap arrangement Because no one else is there An... Continue Reading →
Big Smile in the Sky Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers pack all the valuables he wants shipped home gives the rest to Goodwill puts the... Continue Reading →
You Sleep the Sleep of the Scorched Cockroach Crushed. Crushed behind the incinerator with a forgotten Frito's bag and a pound and a half of charred cardboard. If only there were a way to free your withered, wasted left arm,... Continue Reading →
How It Happens Just before I wake up it’s Friday and a child I’ve never met living in my old house by the river takes a walk to the dark bank withdraws a gold nugget small as his infant sister’s... Continue Reading →
Moving In When I first moved to this neighborhood, life came abruptly to my bed every morning and dragged me into its river. I had to wake up to find my way, the old maps weren’t any good! Houses, sky,... Continue Reading →
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