Most recent stories

Call to Arms

11871187 views1010 comments88 favs

I call upon all cashiers in dungarees... I call upon the baristas in rags... I call upon those whose sinister principles tax the weakness of their conscience... I call upon all those deracinated by dreaming big...

Kintsukuroi

12651265 views22 comments22 favs

The scared woman, she hides her flaws from the world.

Missing Letter

17261726 views1515 comments1010 favs

It's so far to get to where we aren't inthe way of someone's destructive progress.I'm only walking in my own gardensnow, but the big blue house is like an emptiedout envelope. I guess that makes this themissing letter. I don't know your heart's newaddress, but I once…

the road of no light, the map of no road

12201220 views44 comments22 favs

so out to the night, and turning out the stars, so nothing can last, and nothing is taken in

Dancing with the Marionettes

148148 views1212 comments88 favs

.

Ways and Means

12831283 views1212 comments55 favs

the bodies of the poor become/ a simple logistical problem,/ disposable as any gnawed bones

Elk Hunters

11461146 views33 comments33 favs

"Damn! All I've got is a hundred dollar bill."

Chicken Noodle

14251425 views1010 comments88 favs

Damn this airplane

Simon The Sex Trafficker

14021402 views33 comments33 favs

While he was in there he saw another man walk in, five years his senior. He was ushered back by a woman with bare legs and a white coat, as if she was role playing a professional masseuse. He'd caught sight of the man's ring finger and it hand a plain gol

Song: Nope, music by Tim Young, lyrics by Jerry Ratch

12681268 views22 comments22 favs

paste into browser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsSKsjOTCFU&feature=em-upload_owner

You are here

11781178 views1212 comments88 favs

meditation and thoughts run in circles

Lucky Strike

18541854 views1414 comments88 favs

I like the smoke going in but I like it even more when it's coming out

The Rising Tide

15481548 views1919 comments1111 favs

I'm just a rental dog myself looking for the guardian of starlight peeing on the expired parking meters and barking up all the wrong trees.

Heirloom Pendant of an Ash-Tracked Snow

14271427 views55 comments44 favs

If I do not hear you leaving by the door... The nearness here of this yet questions when I know you will not come so back again, Nowise the same as you were there before. My own reflection, centred at its core On knowing each …

Our Beautiful Sadly Revolving Broken Wheel of a Heart is Sleeping in a Ditch Somewhere

16441644 views1010 comments88 favs

The planet looks so peaceful from space doesn't it? Want a blue Gumball? Like a pancake batter with bluish dye mixed into Its big yellow bowl and carried out by a winking Victorian Butler. Like a bowling ball with just the right Weight for your…

Sorbet in the Luminous Capsule

19991999 views33 comments22 favs

Even in the brief flickers where your eyes and nose are visible you look gelatinous. Like a forgotten traveler suctioned to the side of an immersion tank. Am I sick because this bizarre spectacle is irresistible to me?

The Case of the Incinerated Spinster

11081108 views44 comments44 favs

There by the opposite doorway opening onto the thinly carpeted kitchen lay—well, what seemed to be all that was left of Miriam Flagellporte . . .

Because

290290 views2929 comments2020 favs

.

Inconsequential

14621462 views1111 comments66 favs

I write poems as if language matters.

instead

12171217 views44 comments44 favs

instead of gun metal deceit, sounds of malice;be a drop of rain.

1 Good Hubcap

12141214 views44 comments33 favs

I got one good hubcap I lost the other 3 I just don’t know What the heck is wrong with me I got one good hubcap As you can plainly see The other 3 were seen Just a-hanging from a tree That’s what must’ve happened When I ran my car ri

Sensoria

12431243 views22 comments22 favs

For Takama this created the second conundrum of the day. One even bigger than the first. When he’d first learnt that sensei and he would be boarding a flight together for a series of demonstrations in Geneva, little had he expected he would be locked up i

I Wanna Do This

15181518 views1010 comments66 favs

strobe lights wash me up and down and here is the hottest mad dancer of the early morning black and loaded rushed into a freeze frame ...Also link to the song "Nope"

Fealty

14231423 views1010 comments77 favs

I wander toward the midnight dock a neon sine curve stabs my eyes

This Can't Be True, But I Remember It

13331333 views33 comments33 favs

She calls me by my name. She says I am her daughter.

Heart 1.1

19881988 views11 comment11 fav

you wear the warmth of death/ and your heat eternity/ blasts on mourn from your heart

Assless

13971397 views1313 comments88 favs

I heard on WUSF,

mnemonic haiku

17051705 views77 comments55 favs

skies electric blue,/limpid dewy air, the world/framed by a small farm.

A Cameo (for no-one)

16541654 views77 comments55 favs

I bleed my heart into my computer, peruse The fact they have proclaimed my root unfit for use But it is I! This manhood, this tower Extending up toward the heavens like a miraculous flower, Purple headed warrior of generation, See it standing…

Subsistence Culture

14471447 views1212 comments66 favs

Defy the impulse to grow beyond/ your means and the means of the/ place where you lie at night.