Most read stories

The Short but Fulfilled Life of a Dream

11161116 views00 comments00 favs

It kind of reminded him of a giant, real life game and not virtual reality. He was weaving in and out of cars so fast that you might have thought he was knitting or something.

A salute to Poetry Month last and a hello to May

11161116 views00 comments00 favs

Fleeting moments of tension free, Sensory glimpses of how it could be, A sweet easy rhythm in synchrony Is how it seems for you, too, to me. There's nothing really but memory, Yet promise of something's The world I see.

Mail from the Ungrund: A Tardy Preamble

11161116 views55 comments33 favs

nevertheless, this crowd had come up with a universal cure for humanity, and regardless of consequences . . .

The Squirm

11161116 views33 comments22 favs

[DON'T FORGET TO PARTY!]

Beside the Swing Set

11161116 views44 comments00 favs

Julie had a thousand freckles the color of mud.

For Colleen McCullough

11161116 views22 comments11 fav

She was reading The Thorn Birds. Always on her side, in a pink cotton housecoat. The Buddha rested on his side. And drank milk. We drank plenty of milk, but, being Catholic, didn't know anything about Buddha. I would sit there. Piles of books were around. I…

Too Much Info

11161116 views22 comments11 fav

  It wasn't meant for our brains to take in so much information, I hear someone say on NPR The information age, seems to be suited for me, I can't get enough of it, it floods my mind and nerves, Reading wikipedia and blogs for hours and You tube   And im…

Brother Dream

11151115 views44 comments44 favs

It’s always daylight there My brother comes running down the sidewalk holding out his arms and calling my name He’s wearing suspenders. He’s gotten thinner in heaven He embraces me warmly wanting us to be friends I give up trying to resist

Love, your daughter

11151115 views1010 comments77 favs

You gave me all of the power, and none of the power.

My Book of Frozen Ponds

11151115 views88 comments55 favs

We broke our hearts rather than sit in your reversible seats with the plain brown paper packages tied on our laps, we did so together. You don't want to hear about that. It gets too close to the actual murder of love. I…

Abundance

11151115 views33 comments22 favs

A young woman in shorts removes her sunglasses, putting them on top of her head in order to study the little girl sitting on her father’s lap on the bus. “I want to get me one of those,” she says, with her dark eyes smiling.

sunset pleadings

11151115 views44 comments44 favs

fade away glorious, golden delicious

Vivian Considers Vivian

11151115 views22 comments00 favs

She's been considering her breasts more now.

Leave It To Cleavage

11141114 views00 comments00 favs

Thus was Rent-a- Rat, Inc born. At first it was Rent-a-Rugrat, but we changed it so the Army wouldn’t be onto us. Our first headquarters was out of a damned tent on Red Square, but we would get the hell out of there as soon as we could muster the necessar

justice in obverse and reverse

11141114 views55 comments44 favs

seriously: let defendants choose their coin, / execute their own calls, make their own coin flips― / attentive referee, no need for a court.

The Last Thing

11141114 views1111 comments1010 favs

The last thing I remember is falling below the water, lungs filling with liquid.

Death (and a Girl)

11141114 views22 comments00 favs

I toyed with the idea of suicide, then quickly cast it off. Death wouldn’t be interesting. Liberating, perhaps, but not interesting. I hadn’t yet lived enough to die.

Selfie

11141114 views44 comments33 favs

a few numbers/ and a handful of their operations,

Topsy Was a Flip Flopper

11141114 views00 comments00 favs

Topsy was a flip flopper ... Topsy was a crazy complainer.

Jasika by the Mountain

11141114 views33 comments11 fav

There was the small wooden structure near the base of the mountain. It had weathered many storms and its walls talked about the scars of this. In the hills to the west various cries came out from feral animals that seemed to go linger that autumn. But it had been a…

Spellbinding

11141114 views77 comments66 favs

If she weaves words that are true enough

the sleep of rain

11141114 views33 comments22 favs

Soon you too will lie down with the sleep of rain, telling them a thing or two, grown old by having lived through your youth, that is all. Lying from the side of your mouth so often that you take up lying on your side, to try getting an eyeful of the of

I Said God Damn

11141114 views33 comments33 favs

the space between two antelopes is a canyon,

Quay 19

11141114 views22 comments00 favs

Through by the sands and the rocks we were going and the lake liquid had tumbled the stones by the thousands so that while the water was still we could see agates and yellow jaspers and other or even the odd and misspent piece of rounded glass green or white safe…

Change in Status

11141114 views44 comments22 favs

First, he wrote it in a patch of new, wet cement one night at the intersection, for everyone to see, “Tad Loves Kimberley.” Maybe they were still in high school, or one of them worked at the café on the corner, and the other at the ice cream shop. Then

Oh Captain, Good Captain: Part II

11141114 views00 comments00 favs

As the waves rapped in query I studied some words so sad Words she likely knew Words seemed so pale ‘That is not it, at all That is not what I meant at all' Is this what she thought? She leaves needle and thread Down here for dead A fondness for…

Austin, 22

11141114 views22 comments00 favs

A thrill seeker before midnight - but closer to twilight ...

Other Peoples Churches

11141114 views00 comments00 favs

When I hear a hymn

Mar–a-Lago

11131113 views66 comments55 favs

A petition submitted to the Planning Department of Palm Beach Florida requests a zoning variance applied to Mar — a — Lago. Studies, backed by research, have defined Mar-a- Lago, an ideal location for shelter and protection for immigrants, fleeing from…

Encounter with Lover's Daughter

11131113 views00 comments00 favs

What happens when you accidentally run into your lover's daughter on a plane.