1377 3 1
|
Last night, but not really night, I woke up to a huge clattering crash! I reached for my weapon (wouldn't you like to know) and jumped out of soft and cozy, holding myself in my best "I'm-not-afraid-of-you" stance.
|
137732
|
A parody of John Ashbery I have been preconditioned likewise by the ligatures of the roof. It has bypassed even the lightning. When I started this essay I (poetics equalling dissemination, like a toilet plug) admired, and I in the book produced…
|
137701
|
It begins with his positioning.
|
137752
|
I’m up to my ass in social media.
|
137722
|
Pictures of war correspondents from The Tribune, and colonial photographs in a fruit crate
|
137710
|
I bow my head
and shed the antlers
of past lives
I no longer butt heads
with the universe
but I miss my curse
and can’t do worse
I throw myself in reverse
and rehearse the early scenes
of science and my
full meat diet
that sent
|
137721
|
—Hey, lover man, where’s my breakfast? said Monique, tousling Ben’s hair.
|
137600
|
|
137676
|
They wink at me as if to share/
a cosmic joke whose punch line’s still/
a couple dozen light years out
|
137611
|
I had put the child's wagon, which had been red once, back together again. “Honey”, I said, “I found out the garbagemen will pick up concrete this month.” So, I put…
|
137632
|
If someone were to place a rabbit in her lap right now, there would be nothing she could do to hold onto it. It would leap. Drop. Hie its powerful body elsewhere. At the end of her life she would have nothing to show but a collection of rabbit-shaped empt
|
137610
|
You are my intergalactic princess / The most beautiful in twelve systems
|
137610
|
So what happensTo the VFWIn a global economyAnd the monumentsErected in reverenceAfter the boysWho became menCame back homeTo be fathersThen grandfathersGreat-grandfathersAnd start to fall awayAs the days creep byThat petty paceOf politics as usualFamily DiasporasAnd maybe…
|
1376128
|
My name's Barbara and don't call me Barbie if you want to be my friend.
|
137695
|
|
137600
|
[WE'LL LET *YOU* BE THE JUDGE!]
|
137610
|
I wake up in the back of my car, sleeping amongst the junk and a steel trolley I had used to help someone move house. I feel for the door handle to let some of the cold, grey morning air in. I gingerly step out onto the pavement and my leg gives way as a cocktail…
|
137611
|
You have more names
Than a Spanish grandee. Your lives
I’m too envious to count.
|
137630
|
There were more of us before, laying in a puddle cuddling on the floor with heads tucked into the crooks of arms where light scattered their crowns in the morning and no machine exists for me to use trying to find that morning again. Carl could go off the side of the…
|
137600
|
My toes curled together under the pathetic rag of a bedsheet, the frost creeping in through the two-inch deformity of the window on the left wall. I was tempted to sneak a glance at them to insure that they weren't black, but then decided that I'd…
|
137633
|
Being burned with a branding iron really hurts. Everyone must have voted for the Forge because next thing I knew there was only God on TV
|
137620
|
Irrational Obligations In honor of National Pi Day Any excuse for a circle, a way to pinch the day. They are calling it something like a celebration only with bigger words and too many numbers to count. We'll have to approximate the amount of joy …
|
137665
|
we were all meant to do with our love? What I can think of is to ask the question again. I suppose there are others more willing to supply you with a proper answer, but none seem real to me. These words are only stones,meant to skip across the…
|
137661
|
removing oneself sometimes occurs only on the page
|
137610
|
There was a thing she liked to do in the pool—after running and sweating—and that was to exhale as much air as she could stand, then hold her nose and sink to the bottom and just look up at the surface of the water, the way the sun hit it, the way the liq
|
137682
|
The sometimes shiver that arrives from awkward silences and the more often cold that comes from midwestern winters.
|
137622
|
Douchey Jake made me cry until my eyes puffed so much I couldn't see through them. I said hey look, to my friends who slept on the futon, don't I look like one of those dolls with the real fake eyelashes? The truth is I've been pretending I don't…
|
1375128
|
What does God find abhorrent?
|
137521
|
summon the chamois to hyperspace
|
137553
|
She is a manifold of temporal flows.
|
