Most read stories

Saul Lies, 33

10101010 views22 comments00 favs

Saul Lies, 33 and uneager to lift his head off of the hair grease stained pillowcase that absorbed his mental anguish most nights, stayed in bed past noon

The Fruitless Resuscitation

10101010 views33 comments22 favs

I was sent here to perform the autopsy on the norm, the status quo, the bourgeois.

Steven's Checks

10101010 views11 comment11 fav

They used to send Steven a check in the mail every 2 weeks. It was the only thing he looked forward to, it was the only mail he ever got. When it stopped a month ago he thought maybe it was just a fluke, got lost in the mail, something like that...

Portrait of a Dead Princess

10101010 views1212 comments77 favs

Extrapolate, interpolate/ to add imaginary flesh// to fragmentary bones.

It's All in Your Head

10101010 views77 comments66 favs

The terms of a broken heart, I guess I nevergot to read them. But they must besomething awful, something numbing, something no sane personwould ever agree to. You're already on the vergeof becoming nothing I can remember without a photograph beingshoved in my face. Like a…

Despite the Spring

10101010 views44 comments44 favs

The scarred heart pumps its viscous blood.

Everybody Was a Virgin Once

10091009 views00 comments00 favs

Most women simply don’t want damaged goods. That’s a fact I’ve been brought face to face with throughout my life. It's something you can continue crushing your brains against, like an impossibly high hurdle. At first you take the damage without unde

Enigmas

10091009 views11 comment11 fav

Fish don't walk.

It's the Great Conspiracy, Danny Brown

10091009 views00 comments00 favs

Danny was only ten years old when he first met the man in the suit. His machine looked like a plotter and it was, sort of, but also something of a plot device.

Be Prepared

10091009 views11 comment11 fav

I thought I would beThe standing champagne glassunmarked and gleamingThe sleeping silverParalleling matesInert as ChinaBut I was the catasleep on the rug

circles, the round

10091009 views1111 comments88 favs

and skirts, lovely batiks, swirl around your ankles

The Circumcised Heart

10091009 views55 comments33 favs

You shall hear, against your ear, the beating of a circumcised heart.

Blackout

10091009 views22 comments00 favs

forsake glass; structure; light; the impermanence of here, or there, or you, or i.

2 Poems featuring A Century of Art

10091009 views66 comments55 favs

"MAN S FEET HAVE GROWN/SO BIG THAT HE/FORGETS HIS LITTLENESS"--DON MARQUISA Century of Art by Darryl Price"Man's feet have grown so big that he forgets his littleness."--Don Marquis Everything in this chummy little place talks to your face without stopping to…

Order

10091009 views22 comments00 favs

Still worried. I could use some more hope in my oatmeal.

FULL NEST

10091009 views55 comments11 fav

Every time I look at you there are two dumb mouths that slip between stretch marks.

Letter Home

10091009 views99 comments55 favs

The pen point sits motionless on the paper...

de gustibus non disputandum

10091009 views33 comments00 favs

those darn kids

Zippers.

10091009 views55 comments11 fav

Things had started to fall apart. And not only things — things that were meant to keep other things together. Three zippers in two months had fallen apart. I needed to connect.

Skinburn

10091009 views00 comments00 favs

I wrinkled my face up in the glare and warmth of the sun. I baked easy in the hovering heat and my spot-speckled skin ate up the rays and swallowed deeply.

Puppet X, 8

10091009 views66 comments00 favs

After too much I had forgotten how to fly. There was a small owl with me on the old dirt road by the wind. It was a very dark gray, like an ash. Its beak moved, it opened and shut, opened and closed, but I had also forgotten the language

Endless

10091009 views11 comment11 fav

My grief is made up of Demons fighting to Claw their way first Out of my eyes

How We Handle Our Midnights

10091009 views22 comments11 fav

He fingered her lighter off the table during a party hoping she would come over and talk. She was just on the other side of the coffee table but the stereo was so loud, belly or dee lite or some other early 90's dance…

Interlude: Beauty

10081008 views33 comments00 favs

Musing on female beauty I came up with this: it makes my dick hard. And if that's a bit crude, well, hell, I'm dead. Want to sue me? Back when the clans were at one with the earth, circa goo-gobs of long years B.C., female beauty meant…

The Storyteller

10081008 views00 comments00 favs

Our fingers, arms and toes slither over one another along the smooth crevices between muscle and bone like familiar childhood paths.

Our Top Hats Blow Off While Yours Only Gets Tipped

10081008 views55 comments66 favs

Our world is a prism floating through its own rainbow smeared shadows in a desperate attempt to get caught. Our lives are in the carpets, the planks, the winds. Whatever has heard us, has not believed in us enough to rescue us from our own …

He Is Not Gone

10081008 views66 comments22 favs

Since then I have come to feel his absence and feel that it might be time to try and write about this again. I used to spend a great deal of time managing things on facebook for a very large group with over 10,000 members. While some might not understand

Sea of indifference

10081008 views00 comments00 favs

Sea of indifference Coming and going Never committing Like a fickle lover that erodes a hopeful heart

Control

10081008 views00 comments00 favs

The eater's pose extending the fork in hand toward the bowl wherein the appetizer lay readied. Salad, carefully configured for its purposes mixing vitality with pleasure which should not be differentiated, don't you agree? Colors selected for their…

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 50

10081008 views11 comment11 fav

Oriana, much as she wanted to, did not sleep with Francesco, propriety ruled.