Stories tagged poems

Collapsing Scenery

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Because we are all ex-patriots...

Human Movement

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Steaming with sap and greaseproof poly

Book of Mountains

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Headsets screaming with suburban boredom

Pebbles Against Empire

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Whatever you have,/ we can monetize it

The Last Earthly Gift

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Your cheekbones startled me, sharp and prominent

A Skeptic’s Faith in Four Parts

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The universe will fuck you over in the end./ That’s what it does, what it’s good at—

Hidden

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She is alone in the ocean

Year End Closeout: Buy One, Get Seven Free.

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It’s not that cold but the cold that is/ penetrates layered cloth and soft skin/ to chill the blood in its capillaries

Figures in Disquieting Landscapes

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Tentacles hold fast to the small/ thrashing thing they believe is true// which, devoured, once crushed/ completely still, turns into shit,

Two Little Fictions

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His work was done. For sixty years, beginning soon after his seventeenth birthday, he had listened to the gods- good, bad, somewhere in between-

EXHALE

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An excited state with undiscovered borders, the almost space -

Oblique in an Acute New Century

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It is a small life, circumscribed/ by debt and income, age and infirmity./ The Hidden Hand thrusts its middle finger/ high.

Phenomenology

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Someone will labor to keep it alive/ although the body will want but/ to return to random particles

Tchotchkes

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Each little token is the world/ as you knew it at each time and place

In tidal relief

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the world slips under the waves