Most read stories

I'm a Clown in His Circus

14041404 views00 comments00 favs

He called me Jay. I called him Dr Corvid. Until the very end, we lived alone. We had no use for any other companionship. I was Dr Corvid's finest achievement until he perfected his Disintegration Ray. I was the first working prototype of Project Novus.Dr Corvid created me…

Cats

14041404 views1414 comments99 favs

and you imagine euthanizing them if what she says is true, that she is leaving them to you in her will.

Snark

14041404 views11 comment11 fav

His Danger Pistol was out of bullets, his Bag of Tricks was empty, and he wasted his last can of Antimatter back at the lab. All he had was his Charm and his wits. Charm wouldn't last forever, and he'd always come up a little short in the wits department.

a girl's mane

14041404 views22 comments11 fav

Wild bore the wind down on me, coming out of the heavens that turned around the stars of the evening. The longing and the appetite at work in the body, all tickling to open a girl’s mane, gaping, health-giving crossroads to the body. Hail and farewell t

Perdita in pieces

14041404 views55 comments55 favs

Perdita's confusing profusion of parts makes it impossible to know which way up she goes.She flutters beneath the camera's shuttered stare, …

Empty Pockets

14041404 views11 comment11 fav

We dance on rooftop, then I fall off.You're like, "oh shit."Pale blue lobster finds me. Says, "hello." Taps me with claw, "wake up." Looks around, concerned. Shakes me with two claws on collar.Scuttles away for a second.Comes back with warm, perfect, round glazed doughnut.…

i've worn it like a trophy all day

14041404 views00 comments00 favs

if i could i would leave/ my beating heart like flowers/ pumping blood upon your doorstep/ in gory testament/ to the way you make me feel.

Landmarks

14041404 views33 comments33 favs

Play somethin’ solemn, they told me, or somethin’ that sounds like home or the mountains in summer.

Cracked Heart Reigns in My Eyes

14041404 views1010 comments66 favs

Rainy eyes fall fast somewhere close to me Riding the wind like lust

It's really not the same

14041404 views1010 comments99 favs

It wasn't the same as taking a course with Ginsberg. Everyone knew Ginsberg. Nick Cave, too, everyone knew him. Waiting lists were full months in advance for those classes, everyone sent in resumes and writing samples, praying, begging to be included. Lish was just an…

Monogamy

14041404 views33 comments33 favs

cummings starts to sniff, his usual routine. He feigns aloofness while raising one wolfy leg to pee on Eliot's sneakers.

At the Jr. Algonquin Roundtable

14031403 views22 comments11 fav

“He didn’t finish ‘The Witchcraft of Salem Village,’” Scooter says, tattling on his little brother. I’m projecting him to be a first-round draft pick by the National Security Agency in about ten years.

3 Poems and a Seething Pen

14031403 views22 comments00 favs

it’s more about how all those words look around each other. he’s more interested in the shape of things, than the reality....

Loch Traignarry Light

14031403 views66 comments44 favs

The Traignarry Light Preservation Society meets monthly, and welcomes visitors.

The Late, Late Show

14031403 views44 comments11 fav

Camilla and I watched a movie, then we were the movie. A man wandered in a decrepit house, or in a dream of a house, which had wallpaper hanging like shredded flesh and little mounds of filth and a madwoman with a butcher knife creeping from room to room with fear or…

Sphynx Clara

14031403 views00 comments00 favs

A brick from the parapet splat down later as I was applying a bitter healing powder, made from the seeds of watermelons, to my raw tongue.

Sorry

14031403 views00 comments00 favs

...society has tampered with its denotation so much that it is almost incomprehensible without context.

Star-eater; a poem

14031403 views55 comments44 favs

Star-eaterHere lies the star-eater.Tilting on the ancient wheelof summer-glaze-breath,you speak the oceans. Fire's the mealfor you, the star-eater. You defy death,and out of your mouth, a universe openspouring forth, as fleet as the starslight on your tongue. Space…

Excelsior - A Poem in 9 Parts (post 2 of 5)

14031403 views22 comments22 favs

II. ByCoalport Your hair streams minarets across a bridge, The…

New Year's Eve, 1975

14031403 views1212 comments77 favs

contacts, false eyelashes, strappy open-toed sandals

True Stories About False Dancers

14031403 views55 comments55 favs

The world is a mighty funny place. It spins wildly and we are held down by its strong ghostly gravity. We're still able to communicate with one another over morning coffee and delicious cake donuts dipped in chocolate. Some of us used to keep…

Every Headache

14031403 views22 comments00 favs

It’s possible that you’re dying. Every headache a brain tumor, your friend once said. You laughed then. Now you begin to see what he meant.

visionary

14031403 views1212 comments1010 favs

let it lie

from Abel, to a reproachful correspondent

14031403 views66 comments44 favs

when you betrayed the vain ambition of my death,/I did not complain.

Walking To Gibraltar, Chapter 15: In Which The Damage Is Contained

14031403 views00 comments00 favs

He stood sopping in front of the mirror, dripping onto the limp puddle of clothing on the floor. He needed a haircut. He needed a shave. He needed to get rid of the two-fucking-inch white hair inside the helix of his right ear. He plucked it—and all the h

End Time

14031403 views1414 comments1010 favs

and you fall down.

Complex

14031403 views22 comments22 favs

He sees the dogs through the window, his babies, sleeping on opposite ends of the couch. His girl, lying supine, hind legs spread, grotesquely, almost comically, as far as they can without being flush with the cushion. His boy, Cosmo, face down, the power…

The Strength of Glass

14021402 views44 comments22 favs

They sit across from each other and she smiles as if they were in a normal place.

I wear my square sunglasses

14021402 views33 comments22 favs

square mannequin-wives who can’t look in their eyes

Real Life

14021402 views55 comments33 favs

Just like real life before poundsigns.