Most read stories

The Sea of Dreams

12591259 views00 comments00 favs

When I wake, I wonderwhat leaves the smile haunting my lips.There is only a ghostly remnant of your eyes, your touch, your kiss. Now I long for the Sea of Dreams,but my body is here imprisoned.Awake, I cannot reach you.The ship has departed; the tides have…

Dream of the Feast

12591259 views22 comments11 fav

I’d caught a small fish but there wasn't enough room on the bridge to reel it in completely so I carried it hanging from my pole along the edge of the traffic A fine black dog joined me following me into the shack at the end of the bridg

The Grand Assembly of the RaZahn

12591259 views00 comments00 favs

This anachronistic portion of the novel opens up a new and revelatory portion of the story which clarifies much of the mystery surrounding the developments.

Aftermath

12591259 views66 comments55 favs

You better read the papers If you don’t understand Cause as of last night I’m a one-man band You’d better walk through water With your boots on fire Cause Baby I don’t think I can take this any higher You’d better find out what I dr

Sappho

12591259 views33 comments33 favs

Two Roman busts have come down to us, both copies of supposed earlier Greek originals, from the 4th. century BC.

Visions

12591259 views11 comment00 favs

colors dancing on metric vectors

First Man ~ 1947

12581258 views22 comments22 favs

By the basement washtubs, I watched him skin a squirrel:

13 phantasmagoric floats appearing in the Bird King's Chimeric Carnival

12581258 views11 comment11 fav

1. Days of InnocenceFluorescent maggot men dance the flamenco.2. The Eyes of MedusaPythons and immobile pole dancers in grey body paint.3. GolgothaA drunken mechanical Christ grinds your bones to make his bread.4. Big Ape BollocksAlpha males slug it out in a cage made of…

Domestic Tragedy

12581258 views00 comments00 favs

We never meant to gain their confidence only to outgrow them. They were once our best friends, the ones who listened, the ones who understood or sat across from us so we could see them nod. They leaned…

For my Unknown Love

12581258 views33 comments00 favs

I still remember the old times when we were together. I wish I wouldn't have let you go. If you ever thought that we should be together, please come back.

Mr. Townsend Wakes Up

12581258 views11 comment00 favs

Mr. Townsend is a normal guy. He's been on auto pilot a while. When he finally snaps out of it, he's surprised at what he finds.

the last day of the world

12581258 views22 comments00 favs

I thought that was the last day of the world (when I floated up near your ceiling,) but it was the first. I thought I had seen the worst. But that was nothing. I know you had no idea what was coming when I first met you. But when we looked in each other

For You

12581258 views22 comments22 favs

Why should you go through that for me?

Snowflake 632565000012

12571257 views33 comments33 favs

YES, YES, Dismiss.

Edward Ogle the Fifth

12571257 views33 comments22 favs

Roaming beetles knitting needles chopstick counter attack.

"The Game Is Rigged" (A 2nd Letter From Uncle Bernie)

12571257 views00 comments00 favs

We used to have a saying: steal an old lady’s pocketbook and you’ll go to jail, steal her pension and you’ll go to the Ritz.

Other Verities

12571257 views22 comments22 favs

He who is well hydrated, won't sweat you

Memory

12571257 views77 comments00 favs

Jessica's face was so close to mine I had to focus on her left eyeball to keep my eyes from crossing.

The Time Traveler

12571257 views00 comments00 favs

The Time Traveler had been gone but a minute, when Filby, combing his fingers through his ginger hair, turned to the Psychologist and proclaimed, “That’s the last we shall see of him.”

Wayfinding

12571257 views33 comments33 favs

He chose her for the way she could, Eyes closed, nose to the air, Find her way North. North was where the wind stopped And held them in its grip, safe. Broken. He chose her for the way, fur against Her collar, she could coax seal…

Tiny Breaths

12571257 views44 comments00 favs

Fire and ice undo me. I am born again, born again through the burning ice and biting flame. Listlessly floating cinder-like on lost cusps of wind that multiply with every with every single with every single breath. Spitfire grail and…

Buddies to the End

12571257 views66 comments55 favs

“Tell me how sad they are.”

The Magic of the Old Man

12571257 views1010 comments55 favs

As far as I knew it was just an old man and his wife who lived in this house, but not really. I mean if you had seen what every person on that block had, you would have realized that many lived there, well many beings.

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 36

12571257 views44 comments22 favs

Vicki's scream echoed in Michiko's ear, an unwelcome earworm.

Nodding Off in the Paper Airplane Assembly Line

12571257 views44 comments44 favs

The world's anxious fire breathing mob still wants in, but they don't know what in the smoke they are looking for. They aren't really thinking in that intellectual direction. All these wonderful, friendly books you see do not hold the answer or…

Syndrome (re-mix)

12571257 views44 comments33 favs

The brain had elected itself Judas, sleazy loud with silver jangling In this grand guignol of new and quickly old concussion Limbs roasted themselves to occult temperatures Yet remained whitely chilled under air that strove to rub, scrape, signify …

The Watcher

12561256 views00 comments00 favs

the dark brown cloaked warden stands on his lofty perch

Ink on Paper

12561256 views00 comments00 favs

Waves like lovers gather and crest, crash into White uncertainty.

Letter

12561256 views99 comments77 favs

I'm writing you this letter played on a cherry flute. I'm sending it along through the poem's cloud of incense. The only delivery system I still hitch up for long distance pitching. I'm writing you a letter you'll probably never read. Never…

Nineteen in '72

12561256 views00 comments00 favs

bursting girl there is no moon