Most read stories

Mr. Feisty Mischievous

13211321 views11 comment00 favs

His nervous cackle makes me sick - Oh, if only - Times were different - That knife - Would fit so nicely in his back

Exploring Physics

13211321 views99 comments77 favs

Our half-life, radioactive decay, particles shed leaving dust and bone."twilight years", "golden age", "evening of life"?Bullshit. I'm not ready to stop pumping high octane.You said, "I'll take you to Paris."Hemingway's address is still in your notebook, I saw it.I'll wear…

Boundaries

13211321 views11 comment11 fav

Hands and fingers feeling down Cross the boundaries I laid

Cracked Heart Reigns in My Eyes

13211321 views1010 comments66 favs

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

How the 60's Ended

13211321 views44 comments11 fav

The Beatles on TV their last show together as a group and we all knew it smoking dope sitting around in large groups in living rooms across the universe they sang Let It Be and The Long and Winding Road knowing a man

Five Stories About Inexperienced Youth

13201320 views44 comments22 favs

1. Pharmacy Randy approached the counter. It appeared that the only person in the pharmacy was the pharmacist himself, Mr. Crubby, and from the sound of the stiff white bag crumpling he was busy saving someone's life, or at least ameliorating someone's …

(children, children)

13201320 views55 comments55 favs

Her name was Carrie. And yes, it was love at first sight. Yes, she was a client, and you were supposed to keep your hands off the clients. Everyone in real estate knew that. She came into my office and took a seat in the reception area. I had a listing on Cedar…

Shame On 34th Street

13201320 views00 comments00 favs

This tanka poem was inspired by news report that the Macy's of "Miracle on 34th Street" fame has a white Santa in front and a black Santa in back.

Halfsies

13201320 views33 comments33 favs

You and she might make love here, next week, and I'll buy my own razor, switch from baths to showers. I shave my legs in my imagination. They, like life, are smooth.

Payton, Pelt & Hargrove: 3 (Sorta) Young Lions of the Jazz Trumpet

13201320 views00 comments00 favs

It’s the middle-aged jazz musician who tends to get lost in the shuffle; no longer news, and not ready for the marble statue-treatment.

summer fields

13201320 views33 comments33 favs

we ran that afternoon/across Bayshore lanes/into green blooming fields, beyond all those

The Metaphysics of Cake

13201320 views55 comments22 favs

Can we ever truly know reality? I don’t think so. But fly in comfort my friend. Lean back and enjoy the thrust of those engines.

a girl's mane

13201320 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

Musica

13201320 views44 comments22 favs

A sizzling as skin and sinew melt, fall away. "Scream if you need to scream, child." And I scream, and her song gains strength. The warmth of her around me. It is time.

Vacuum City

13201320 views11 comment00 favs

What chaos comes from / insufficiency? What else can calcify dreams?

(give me a real moment with a living god and I’ll go all the way)

13201320 views1010 comments55 favs

I remember, when I was selling real estate, how you could always tell when there'd been a divorce. One room was conspicuously left emptied of its contents, and these rooms were never swept or tidied. Instead they were left just as they were when the par

Waiting for Hurricane Dennis, Florida 2005

13201320 views33 comments33 favs

WAITING FOR HURRICANE DENNIS, FLORIDA 2005 With soft eyes, she quizzed, shivered, said: “Where's Dad? Where's Ric? Will you leave me here alone? Are you all going to leave? Where's Peter? Do you feel all right? We're…

Virgo

13191319 views1313 comments66 favs

I said he was cold. I said I like cold.

Hooves on the Sand

13191319 views00 comments00 favs

It was a bright day in April, the cruelest month, and the gears and pumps of the train beat on into the still air.

Metropolitan

13191319 views22 comments11 fav

Metropolitan I. Atlantic harbinger of this our swaddled dawn: Mistaking moon's sea sweep for this the frown The sky's plain-countenanced creatures maytimes weep Upon the surface-sundown of our lawn, When gaily surfaced for…

Bare Ruined Palace

13191319 views88 comments55 favs

Every encounter is a dance, every secret has its key

Museum Story Listening

13191319 views00 comments00 favs

A sort of invocation of the open sky, in contradistinction to the dark of the Earth whence came the specimens, a figurative marriage of the literal darkness of exploration and the figurative light of knowledge.

Faith in the Rest

13191319 views22 comments00 favs

She had the smile of a pixie on mushrooms in a disco ball universe, and I dug her style.

If Hell...

13191319 views11 comment11 fav

the sour waft of a secret

Off Shoots

13191319 views22 comments22 favs

My name is Lassie.

From The Plague Year 2020

13191319 views1313 comments1010 favs

I went to Costco

We Must Save Ourselves

13191319 views22 comments22 favs

We Must Save Ourselves I'm looking for my savior on subways, Is he this man pushing half himself On a skate board, from car to car, Singing I have no Legs, I have no Legs, I'm looking for my savior in coffee shops Of…

Pain

13191319 views1010 comments22 favs

Everything I understand / is in danger.

Metaphor Therapy

13191319 views66 comments44 favs

"Psst! You can't hide behind a broken dream.The gardenia's hint that fills your air with her perfumed scent will remain like a residue on your mind. I wish there were an antidote I could share with you, but alas, my apothecary drawer is empty. Many times it's been my…

Free Form Jazz of Spiritual Harlem

13191319 views55 comments44 favs

we are one