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The Committee

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We are prisoners of anticipation.

clouded

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a current forecast

Introspection

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The piss monster looks for clues of its childhood in the stains it leaves behind on the furniture.

Another "Accidental" Tryst

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She smacked his back a couple of times with the flat of her hand

Stars and Smiles

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Older than a star I am

What It Took To Be God

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They borrowed birds from the trees And forced me to sing along with them You could say they made my heart burn But we all know some of that was fake It was a direct route From sleep walking To sleep shopping To this I guess I lived a

Downtown

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bullets in flight make sharp, snapping noises.

A One-eyed Polar Bear Tap-dancing On A Polaroid Of Satan Dressed As Gandhi

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On the Rocks

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On the Rocks What matters these, to all, below the crest… If privilege of mind-blankness is the bay's? Remembrance breeds no fathoms of its rest- As plumb the circuit lulled, at each rephrase Of capture,…

Small Snow Haiku.

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A small snow.

the cold the day left

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in our teens as tough as the cold/we wore denim and flannel with our boots/kicking at whichever wind blew . . .

Praying in bed

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When I was a kid, I was terrified of dying in a bombing, which is strange, really, because I lived in Long Island, which has relatively few bombings to speak of.

The Boot

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my crotch-heavy press of 'Yes.'

Believing Everything I Read In Your Upturned Eyes

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It doesn't have to be force grown betweenus. We entwine naturally. It's agood feeling to have a friend who at oncedoesn't require a hothouse ceiling laidbetween each invisible touch. There's justwind. There's just rain. There's just sun. There's just you.There's just…

Rejection

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I hate math. I hate everything about it.

When I Last Saw Gina

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Regina Dawn "Gina" Edwards, 49, passed away June 2, 2006. R.I.P. "Ridge Woman"

Sonnet for a Unicorn

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My sweet baby angel has baby hair Baby angel has a golden cross lit looking at the crystal pig and kind mare The drowning unicorn comes from the waves in fits. My sweet baby angel has baby talkBaby angel has a diamond shape scarburied heart shaped…

SNIPS & SNAILS & PUPPY-DOG TAILS IS THE *LEAST* OF IT! by Ranting Bitch in a Cold, Cold World

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In the Alley

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as i sink down into the shadows crawling like a worm past cold bricks centuries old in my blood

High Fives

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They pull up to the curbside and he jumps out to shake the hands in that familiar men’s grasp/shake they do when saluting each other. If that isn’t his daughter it should be, the one sitting in his car, with her door wide open.

Arcana Magi Pure Vol.7 - c.5

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Mayumi’s eyes twitched. Her head felt the pounding images and voices grafting themselves onto her mind.

No Regrets

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The ability to "see the ball" is a gift.

How Circular Turns Infinity

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Year End Closeout

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At some point, indifference// will swallow the small gasps./ The appalling will become the norm.

A Christmas Story

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I pay for 3 Trump Troll Dolls and a package red licorice twizzlers and head back toward the door. Dancing Gnome Girl is there to greet me. I stick a twizzler in the teeth of the donation pail.

The Medicine

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It wasn't pain but half of it, so half of it I mended

TOP TEN LIST

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It was only two days before Christmas.  Jonathan remembered his mother crying.

The Safety of Breakers

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I could put on some music, but it just pushes me further away from you it seems. It takes me out far beyond the safety breakers and then introduces me to my own splashing two-fisted fear of swimming. You can swim through concrete—it…

Early Winter Haikus

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The Land Collector

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He liked owning acreage.