Thanksgiving Even when we only worked part-time jobs fixed the thermostat at zero dried our wash on a line out the window we still saved spare change for a turkey scrounged potatoes and onion from Key Food poured two buck... Continue Reading →
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 →
Reenactment …and dim the lights, acting as a soft veil covering my eyes, The numbers on the clock glow faintly across the room, but it is not this time anymore. I command each memory deliberately, sharply, And let them play... Continue Reading →
Poetry Breakfast 