“I'm thinking about math class,” she said. “The solution to three factorial.” “Easy,” Leo said.

I’m secretly hoping for a huge bouquet, a fruit basket, a pickle jar of urine in a lunch bag on my doorstep, even.

"Every generation is a new generation, isn't it? What's so different about your generation?"

Eddie meets Sarah Packard, a “college girl” played by Piper Laurie. She walks with a limp, a fact Eddie doesn’t notice at first because she’s sitting down at a diner table in a bus station. She’s alcoholic and writes poetry.

But Jeffrey was flabbergasted and couldn’t explain to the officer why he was speeding. All he could manage to get out as an attack of Tourette syndrome hit were nasty, flamboyant obscenities. The Alabama state trooper wasn’t amused.

He keeps saying it, babbles the term like he knows what it means and we wince and interject with mama, mama, mama,

Sora rubbed her neck as Azure gave her attention. She did not know where to begin, thinking about what to say first.

I feel about the universe/ as Abrahamics are supposed/ to feel about their Yahweh, /their God, and their Allah:/ I am in fear, I am in awe, /I am in love.

strung from her window to a tree

...listening to the ache of errs our mouths had become.

Cézanne sags during a moment of paint. There is an umbrella in the room whose surface collects his thoughts. Outside, in the rain, the grass and garden smell strongly of spring. Fruit litters the table. Light through the window writhes in conversation with shape and…

One of the poems in my collection, One Day Tells its Tale to Another, published December 16, 2012. Available on Amazon. My first book!

The kid with a testosterone chip Instead of a brain

Her smile dazzled me from across the room.

We were wild, medieval magpies, sweaty and sweet and selfish; and so much more than we were before I lit that first stick of spice,