Most read stories

Boys With Antlers, Girls With Wings

12521252 views11 comment11 fav

Now that you can go to a body shop and get nearly any mod you can imagine printed and attached in about an hour, every cracker-ass redneck is sporting a twelve-point rack...

Strawberry Daiquiris

12521252 views55 comments55 favs

A hot summer night walks into a bar and orders a drink.

The last sunny day. LUST

12521252 views11 comment00 favs

I remember.

Wind Bag

12521252 views44 comments44 favs

Last night I decided to go through my bag of wind and sort things out. I'm a hoarder, and wind is no exception. I collect winds. I found two siroccos, five simooms, three foehns, eight Chinooks, ninety gales, thirty zephyrs, two nor'westers, a monsoon, a…

Three Winter Sketches in Honor of the Vernal Equinox

12521252 views44 comments44 favs

an almost perfectly symmetrical/ Cheshire grin of a moon tonight/ above the iced roof of the house

4:09 and American Music

12521252 views1010 comments33 favs

If you knew everything, you would not be able to sit on tropical balconies at 4:09 A.M., discovering a book and then the world for the first time If you were part of the spiritual set, and could astral travel far and wide, but neglected to open the door…

it was after a revolution, or a war, or some disaster

12521252 views66 comments33 favs

I had this dream. We were living together, and we were in bed asleep when strange, enormous cats began crowding around our windows and meowing. They made awful scratching and scraping noises at the windows, trying to come in. But I couldn’t wake you up.

Christian Bell

12521252 views77 comments44 favs

Night LifeThen things started getting weird. I could give you a time frame but it was back when times didn't matter really, one hour as good as the next and the minutes used to be minutes not the digital counting that makes this crazy world now spin. Here was…

In Memoriam

12521252 views00 comments11 fav

One by one, cars filed into the cemetery, pelted by the summer rain under a gun-metal sky. The procession moved slowly, a series of brake lights and headlights, too close together, too far apart; there were sedans and SUVs, mini-vans and pick-up trucks, shiny new vehicles…

Jade Cicada

12521252 views22 comments11 fav

Jade in the emperor’s death mouth – to the grave – all openings closed – no breath – no air – no life to enter to leave – the end should be silent – you stop my mouth

Experimental Poetry

12521252 views66 comments55 favs

Sometimes the dirt just stays dirt

With Respect to a Fellow Poet

12521252 views1010 comments66 favs

We do not all love each other for the sake of our shared art, apparently.

Struggle for Life

12521252 views88 comments22 favs

7.53Another morning ritual. Trying to fill the loose ends of time in the early morning is a task.7.54I've done about everything, too early to work and too late to go back to sleep. 7.55Trying to avoid the nausea of life at all cost. My mind is a snakepit, filled with…

Down The River

12511251 views33 comments00 favs

The river was frigid. Branches, empty cans, and used condoms float past me.I lost my jacket when I became snagged on a tree branch. My shoes are gone. My skin is blue-grey, as are my lips and fingernails. I've been face-down in this river for two…

The Cat Pulls No Sudden Punches

12511251 views77 comments55 favs

and springs its ready-made claws into action and takes a soppy chance that things will probably go its feline way today. But you, my friend, must you always throw the testing switch to high voltage on me? Yeah I get that the history teachers…

Clipboard Cutie

12511251 views00 comments00 favs

Perhaps she’s also a do-gooder. One of those socially conscious, change-the-world type girls complete with a never ending supply of life’s own contagious enthusiasm.

Downloaded Cheats

12511251 views11 comment00 favs

You are my intergalactic princess / The most beautiful in twelve systems

Lazy River Blues, or Stuck Between a Couple of Exposed Roots and an Endlessly Restless Shore

12511251 views44 comments44 favs

Our Sun bites down on the eager yet pouting lips of the softly puffy looking moon, but a jealous & runny cloud interferes with this story line just long enough for a little bit of fun: a young dancing tree washes her gold and…

But You Said

12511251 views00 comments00 favs

A decade, at minimum, was how long their notes had transpired.Still, they all knew how it would end.

Picture of You: Song

12511251 views44 comments44 favs

Here’s a picture of you Lit up by the internal light Of the moon. It was a Super moon that night And the story of God Had not been told And we had to wait a good Long time to hear it out in the cold And I was the King of Fishers

Un(en)titled

12511251 views99 comments33 favs

Our trouble decided when the CUNY PhD student, a poet, cried out, “Racination!” during discussion of my poem.

Mickey and Harriet

12511251 views00 comments00 favs

  Ellie's got two parrots. She owns the house down the block to the left where the golf club owner fixes her grounds and garage because he can't stop working on his vacation. You'd think he…

The Roman Twin

12511251 views00 comments00 favs

Reverend Peter Roman could stand it no more. He stopped his speech. He felt a fire burning through him, a hatred for humanity and all the weaknesses of beings not perfect before God. He stood a long while, staring at the congregation. Then, he slowly spok

Salon du Monde

12511251 views1010 comments33 favs

I sit there reading a magazine while the woman clips my claws. From time to time I watch Kim’s face.

Pageant Night

12501250 views22 comments22 favs

All the baby monsters are being born on stage.

Standards

12501250 views11 comment11 fav

All I ask is that the guy has teeth and an income. More important are the teeth because he can always get a job, but he can’t un-rot the teeth he’s lost to meth.

No Lions or Tigers, Thank Goodness

12501250 views11 comment11 fav

I scrambled back a bit and found my feet after untangling them from my trekking poles. Really should have dropped those when this all started. The bear lunged at me with his teeth and I just barely dodged to the left to avoid getting something bitten of

Anniversary

12501250 views33 comments11 fav

He honestly could care less.  We should converse, you and I, he says. All right, she says.  She lays down the baster in her drawn out way, heel to toe on the countertop, one step in a…

Recycling Evidence

12501250 views1111 comments88 favs

how much is downed/ to counteract the down/ with deeper down.

Silly Old Man Acting the Young Fool

12501250 views77 comments66 favs

The green on your shoulder Is worth all their papery property taxes And then some. They cash in every friendship As if it were nothing more than a Ripened apple for pie. Get rid of The thing before it begins to Rot into some…