1211 5 4
|
I have constructed this emotion with tinfoil and stilts. I wear the mask of a typewriter. I have roots in Minnesota. I have a glass hat and a junkyard monstrosity pregnant with parables.
|
121110
|
I find it more fun to be a pirate
|
121144
|
Caution,
the beer on the shore
is lapping at the foam
of sanity,
and the wind in the trees
is speaking thy
previous names.
Caution,
a rise in the ocean
will soak your dress
above your knees,
causing infinite tears,
infinite hopes
|
121010
|
She’s not settling. She can learn to like this.
|
121075
|
I don't think I minded so much watching the trucks hit him, one breaking his spine with a decisive snap, and the other finishing the job by splitting his skull. I don't think I minded watching as much as I did watching those two boys poking around at his
|
121033
|
irretrievably we tell ourselves stories
irretrievably as beaded water slides off our skin
|
121042
|
breathe out
somewhere a tree falls
|
121054
|
i found her world cluttered and noisy, a place where logic frowns
|
121000
|
Heaven and hell. Hadley believed in neither. One way or another you’re a meal ticket for someone, best to be the one spending than the one being spent. The worms and insects are getting their meal ticket now, that’s for sure.
|
121000
|
they could be barefoot bastard children
for somebody else to clothe
|
121000
|
|
121010
|
skin is soft and too easily sliced away
|
120987
|
In its own defense
against what is too concrete
the mind allows a magical thought--
|
120953
|
Pick up any stick or stone and you'll find the path again. Pick out any lone star and it will shine just for you. The rascal wind simply enjoys messing about with your serious nature. Listen to its…
|
120953
|
accidental ground/
for index-fingered figures
|
120940
|
I've been a fan of hagiography—the lives of the saints—since first grade when Claude Dunham and I were asked to represent St. Stephen and St. Sebastian, two martyrs of the early church, in a tableau vivant of bored boys.
|
120988
|
Pity would have been appropriate. Yet, townsfolk whispered behind his back. Shouldn't he do something about it. So lazy. A gluttonous swine. Hadn't his mother kept him too long at tit, breastfeeding ‘til four? Look. Look at him now. A fat man. Our enormou
|
120930
|
this orient tide come occident: this roll of wreck and reckoned eyes that fathomless are found or made to find her keep within the tight shut shell in soundings deeper than the plumblined soul these western waves gone east: these…
|
120911
|
"I see how little kids might find you creepy," she says between red velvet bites...
|
120921
|
The water quality
will give you a hint
|
120910
|
I was in a nunnery wondering how I wound up in the midst of so many nuns as it wasn't my nature to hang out with nuns. I find them tedious and redundant, though I do have to say I appreciate their economy with words. You never really saw a…
|
120953
|
I didn’t say to eat your keys and parrots.
It was peas and carrots. Idiot!
|
120911
|
She was, they said, everyman’s armful;
Bedding down with her was most likely harmful.
|
120931
|
Two titans move
opposite one another
|
120910
|
As the pastor of a small southern church, I'm often asked by our younger members about this prickly notion of global warming. They herd around me, as adolescents are prone to do, and they ask me, “Dear father, is this something that we should fear, these…
|
1209118
|
This is the place you need a third hand
|
120921
|
My man’s got a habit that’s kinda strange.
I’ve got a feeling he’s never gonna change.
Whenever I take a trip,
when I git back, my underwear’s ripped.
|
120976
|
Equality became the next goal, rendering gay redundant in describing marriage. Gaelic life is ringed with sharing and lent the word slogan.
|
120900
|
Would you take a job living in a computer? What if you had to?
|
120900
|
...black birds fall from trees...
|
