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Who's There?

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The old man sat in the run-down shack, nursing his lobol-weed tea, and cursing the bitter cold wind outside.

Texas Spleen

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Can we survive our Y chromosome?

Farm

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Still as the knife on the counter there still. Like mothballs in a chest. One with clear bags and newspaper clippings and your scarf inside it. The baby girl could put a mothball in her mouth and suck it like a penny. The way too close to a light bulb bur

Funhouse

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beatings and tear gas

Eight-Legged Freaks

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I’ve just moved to New York City and, somehow, Scarlett Johansson is at the same party I’m at.

Mythologies of Self

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We lie sleepless at night, enraged,/ and finger the keyboard

West Side of the Tracks

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The bus heads west on Route 36, toward the next stop – Howell, New Jersey. After driving ten minutes, and after crossing the tracks, the bus gets a flat.

The Monolingual’s Regret

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Polylinguists lash me with tongues I cannot conjugate

Impressionist Modern

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I'd never seen a dead person before, let alone one that was living just seconds earlier.

chicken coup

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" I have no idea what's goin on out here, and I'm gonna find out one way or another."

Make Music, Not Love

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We are/no more than heartbeats on repeat.

Beneath the Light of an Exploding City

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Under the darkness of their new city. The heave and moan of structures as they breathed and pulsed. Under the darkness of this city, under the hum of their florescent bulbs and the tumbling rattle of motorcars, the wheeze of their machines and the clank o

Monsieur, Monsieur, Nous Avon Pamplemousse!

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He came running out of his narrow little shop, Berthillon and chased me down the Ilse St. Louis street, saying, “Monsieur, Monsieur, nous avon pamplemousse! It’s ici, Monsieur. Your pamplemousse. They just come in this matin, morning and I’

A Dream Lay In Wait

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Roanne hungered. Memory had ruled her forever. Shards really, edged like machetes: daddy, whose fingers had eyes in the dark. Momma, ensconced in the shadows. Inside the church, those pairs of short…

Small Snow Haiku.

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A small snow.

Arcana Magi Zero + Pure - c.1

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A Nocturne, whose grey mana seeped out of it mouth, grabbed the roof of the building with its large claws. Using it as leverage, it stood itself up, hunched over, its long whale like head roared like a loud horn.

How To Write a Poem

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an EZ How to Guide in 50 simple steps

Monday

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The door shuts slowly to something that’s allegedly mine and it sits there and waits until I come home just like you.

Cantina

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It's good enough. Spacious. Then the cards but I am not for cards. Sasha directs the people, helping them, at ease and happy even. Strangers that have found a common denominator in games. A brotherhood and sisterhood I can't understand. I watch. I see green…

New in Town

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He had a handsome dial tone, we called him every name but his.

Jimmy and the Ark

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Yes, he'll be quiet. Very quiet. He rocks himself, the ark, suddenly imagining water underneath him, over head, all around. Water, water, water—

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 37

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—Frank, how is your sex life?

A Little Load of Paint

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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…

more horrid haiku

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a mere forty years/and maybe you become twelve,/maybe sixty-three.

We're Still Here

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the beeps, rhythmic, tell us that you're still with us

Chocolate Diamonds

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with facets

Voyeur

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Morning's first blush, their world in repose. Sated, drained, spent; …

Early Tuesday Morning

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The moon hung in the sky, round and pale, under cover of some wispy clouds.

It Seems You've Stumbled Upon My Bildungsroman

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Why yes I began writing this, my bildungsroman, Who is Mitsy Jackson, in spring, 1974 or thereabouts, and thank you so much for asking.

Terror From Above

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A shadowless torpedo shaped form plummeted from the grey, overcast skies upon the many unsuspecting. No remote pilot thousands of miles away guided this particular descent.