Casting nets like Jesus to a metaphor sea Admittedly as weak as me But I need the hike, Like we still like Ike To tell us about the Military Industrial Complex Though he never told us what came next

Approaching the kitchen from the foyer the reverb lessened until heel and floor where flint on flint. No spark was made.

Your life is going to change—how many times was that prediction offered in one form or another during my wife’s pregnancy? Mothers often said it with a bliss-touched smile; fathers with a smirk that was both sardonic and conspiratorial, and a distinct

" Not a day goes by/ that isn't stabbed with common sorrow"--Maurice Manning Crazy's alright by me if it's a harmless plea for some little sanity, or unavoidable by birth but it just won't do for tricks. Like say I go over there right…

For one glittering moment

Fleas were a constant reminder that humans are food.

Infrastructure...

In my innocence and young mind, I thought that kiss would mean that someday we would get married

On his last day of high school Jackie York woke up to the smell of burning books. He didn't know it was his last day of high school. He did know the smoke coming through his rusty window screen was book smoke.

In her belief that Juni is lucky, Jade eases the horrors our mother suffers at night, not because Juni is stuck in a physical passion, but because the whole family and whole groups of strangers know what Juni is doing for sex.

Your voice is yearning, Like a sad song on the radio, A yarn spun to make hearts break.

What if I said; I never liked actually reading?

Out the window is an empty birdbath, dry flaky concrete ring, no birds.

Poetry is like baseball.

He now knew the impossible to be possible.