1808 14 5
|
When I come to suck fresh raspberries'
juice from your hair
pressing the clasp of my mouth's purse
on the oyster of your ear;
|
18082112
|
It is a well-known fact that my wife sleeps around. There. I said it and now everyone knows that I too know about my wife. Let me just tell you this one thing; she has her reasons. You ask me how I know that she has her reasons, but who would know better than…
|
180851
|
Two fine-young-things scan the menu board of In-N-Out Burger off Interstate 101. Dressed like twins -- hoop earrings, tank-tops and mini-skirts, ballet pumps — you could hardly tell them apart, except for their Cleopatra and Marilyn Manson hairstyles. As they…
|
180861
|
Nora never dated Scandinavians.
|
180810
|
The mystery is in the barmaid's impersonal stare
It's all there. Recognizable the bottles of Bass Ale
and Crème de Menthe. Glazed oranges piled in a bowl
Two roses in a small clear glass of water
A wide gold bracelet on her arm, halfway
up from
|
180710
|
I knew her face but not her hair, at least not the right way up.
|
180777
|
But on arrival Darlene was in no prompt mood to undress.
"There's some ugly sumpthin' out there along the fence, looks like it's gnawin' on sumpthin' dead."
|
18071010
|
If he doesn't bite, I'm out of here.
|
180700
|
7
We sat in Darrell's truck in the deserted silent world of the down-trodden industrial area of West Berkeley, where no one in his right mind went at five in the morning. "Put the gun away, Darrell," I said. "I mean it."
"I can't help but keep
|
180632
|
The smell of candy and burn... /A patriotic prose poem for the fourth of July.
|
180600
|
Some say the simurgh is an enormous bird with four wings, teeth, and a human face, able to carry off an elephant in her talons.
|
18061511
|
Stupidity is not a mask; it is the face / and it is the face that betrays us / always.
|
180600
|
He was jolted awake from his light slumber by his pod crash landing. Landing? That means he found a planet. He opened the pod and got out to stretch his legs. He looked around. "Wow, and I thought Aleria was advanced. This is amazing."
|
1806168
|
dos equis ambar
sits cool and dark
by my side
|
180673
|
I, the energies moving through this body, in this particular parallel reality in this multiverse, am standing out in the middle of the night, under only stars, and surrounded by the soft, organic shapes of a tree line.
|
1806147
|
I knew it was just a matter of time...
|
180600
|
|
180632
|
Teaching never occurred to me in college. I took workshops and wrote often. Friends and classmates, meanwhile, switched from studio majors to Art Education, or from English to Certification. Not me. Teaching high-schoolers would be all wrong. Briefly, I…
|
180660
|
|
1806100
|
"What say we adjourn to the bedroom and I give you a little demonstration of sexual acrobatics?”
|
18061211
|
I am sitting on our porch in the middle of the night. I can't sleep. The stars look like runway lights. Out of boredom, I reach out my hand to connect the distant dots. The tip of my finger hits…
|
180611
|
Of all the things Shelly hated about her job, the music was the worst.
|
1806125
|
The heavyset blind woman came into the art opening without a dog or a cane.
|
180622
|
In principle, Sergeant Brock Lumley resisted superstition, but if you were to stop him on any given day he was patrolling Baghdad streets with his rifle squad and ask him to open the front left ammo pouch on his flak vest, he’d get this look on his face..
|
180500
|
stoplight - (haiku love series - #2)
eyes lock in a gaze
glimpses of my future spark
then you walk away
|
1805106
|
|
180592
|
Paddy's night arrived in the manner of finding a half torn fiver, initial anticipation usurped by disappointment before a chancer's edge suggested some craic might ensue after all. A great crowd had gathered somewhere else, for under Hill street bridge…
|
1805148
|
you may meet the man of your dreams.
|
180531
|
Hipster-neutral dressed simulacra-person offers a glance and a wave, sudden as a ping-pong serve, designed to crowd your space and "pal" you but I dodge it — I'm practiced at this.
|
180510
|
After nine months, I was granted early parole...
|
