Most read stories

Off the Record

12221222 views1414 comments55 favs

“In other words you're going to lie through your teeth..."

It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

12221222 views66 comments11 fav

Eva stepped out of the hut she and Javier shared and slogged through the mud toward the coop to fetch fresh eggs for Javier's breakfast. None existed. Javier became angry when he didn't get his eggs. Eva slowed her pace as she neared the door. She knew wh

Sorrow

12221222 views55 comments33 favs

It's not a funeral. Nobody to mourn over.

Ways of Seeing: Carracci

12221222 views1515 comments1111 favs

I have become interested in Carracci / Ludovico Carracci

Mark Twain's Typewriter

12221222 views22 comments11 fav

Did I refer to Mark Twain’s typewriter as an animal? Did I call it a hyena? I would not say that about Mark Twain’s typewriter.

She mentioned prayer in the Øilslick.xxx ZipperPoems

12221222 views00 comments00 favs

We transplant helix° splices and shoot back to meet our former selves, zip the scrolls, and save the world. Then you said spin so I twisted my jumper over and over in endless folds like lips, like vaginas, like seacreatures

Cat crunch

12221222 views22 comments00 favs

I barely scraped the sleep out of my eyes when I heard the shrill crying from outside the kitchen window, and I recalled one of the many reasons cats can't be trusted. You see, they're evolutionarily wired to imitate the sound of a crying human baby, so when they…

Unreasonability

12221222 views11 comment00 favs

kindergarteners sent to class with Uzis

Acorn Gardening for Everyone

12211221 views66 comments66 favs

I'd like to grow you a new flower. I thinkmaybe I just will. Right now. Here's as good a place as any. Well you'll probably never get to see it, but it will be there just the same and it will be all yours. Kind of like these poems that I make if…

Shovels and Honeysuckles

12211221 views22 comments11 fav

When she would leave my pillows still smelled like her. I would just inhale her for hours afterwards, sex and honeysuckles.

20. Smitten

12211221 views1010 comments99 favs

Your tunamelt cadence / Sank me to ocean floors

Five Million Yen: Chapter 17

12211221 views00 comments00 favs

-Someone could have boosted this easy as pie, Ben said to himself.

Nocturnes

12211221 views44 comments44 favs

You go out on a night with no moon, when all the stars are flush in the sky, when all of everything, even you, is just a shadow moving softly, and I swear, you can hear it, if you listen hard enough. The music. It’s like it’s coming from under the ground.

Noir vs. Noir

12211221 views66 comments55 favs

You're sitting in a darkened theatre with Gothic ceilings and one exit watching the latest Alan Ladd film with William Bendix and Veronica Lake.

Hold on

12211221 views11 comment22 favs

I slept and it was pleasant. Then there was the kiss, and it was hot. Later you turned away, and all was November chill. Now there are touches, caresses and shouts, Marvelous nights flavored with favors bestowed, and blackened days,…

Haikus for Miss Winehouse

12211221 views99 comments55 favs

Drag queens weep sequins

Alice Can Derail You in 3/5ths of a Second

12211221 views2121 comments1111 favs

She connects to you via snarling vines & worm-woven tunnels. Drops Roman numerals

5 Poems In The Shape Of Other Poems

12211221 views00 comments11 fav

the things we will accomplish, the things we will leave to others

There's Life Underground

12211221 views44 comments00 favs

I'm not dreaming anymore.

Project Undeath (Work in Progress)

12211221 views00 comments00 favs

The moon bulges with meticulous sick amber fire while first night’s chest heaves and sputters free infantine monstrosity from plague-wormed hovels, din mold choked grottos, and stale metal-cast labyrinth catacombs.

Citronella Socks

12211221 views22 comments22 favs

a cat named email..

Untitled (from Postcards from a Railway Station)

12211221 views44 comments22 favs

As the silence starts gashing I decide it's the moment to take all my thoughts for a walk; To a sound like a million lightbulbs shutting their fuses I resume my view, Across the sun-strobe streets with blind nightlamps; the safflower sun is lopped on its stalk …

The Angel Closes the Rain

12211221 views44 comments44 favs

I may have gone A little soft in the brain But I swear I still see it The angel closes the rain Even God has to refrain From causing us pain When the angel closes the rain So the angel closes the rain At the end of time The angel mus

The Prince of Beers

12211221 views00 comments00 favs

“All I want,” he was heard to say, “is a date with a really good-looking woman before I go away.”

(Yet Another) Mask

12211221 views22 comments22 favs

In frustration, he picked up a hammer and slammed it straight into the center of the mask.

TWEET for H #MELVILLE & W #FAULKNER (a poem)

12211221 views11 comment11 fav

#ShortStory #writers are failed #poets...

Sunday Morning Series- 5: On Divine Intervention

12201220 views1212 comments88 favs

What does God find abhorrent?

Three Short Slips About Plants

12201220 views44 comments33 favs

That twig looks pretty dead to me, He will never ever be a man.

Not as a Poet

12201220 views1919 comments1212 favs

She's not a poet, but does she have to be? She comes to the reading to read the poems of her recently dead husband, for she made a vow: that she would read his work at an open mic. Now she is keeping her word. It's her way of keeping him alive or maybe it's his way of…

Annals of the Naked Rowdies #532

12201220 views55 comments11 fav

Bardan O'Connor stared at himself in the mirror but didn't recognize the image before him. He was pale and looked like death. He tried to psyche himself up for the latest show with a shot of Irish whiskey. He slapped himself hard in the face. "Get it together man." The…