Stories tagged poems

Fa La La La La

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A pinprick breaks the black/ and pins the spin of constellations/ around its still point.

Life with Mia

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We saved and saved to buy the oxblood leather sofa./ Mia loved it so she scratched her name into the armrests

Bitter Bits

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Entropy/ has my number.

Tics

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The damp suspended/ in the air/ in a faint fog/ discourages coagulation.

Quick Teen Summary & Sky Riot

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two small poems connected by the mud

Trio

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With green and silent industry, the plants/ convert our shit to fiber, food and breath.

i want to walk with you

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It isn't a half-cracked sidewalk iron-wrought, October lamp-lit at midnight

Shouting the Muse Down

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In the tumbled-down now there's too much material, culled from pretty boys that don't notice me and tattooed ones that do, and I'm certain there's at least one dreamer soaking eyes into me who knows all the twisted lyrics invoking pretty little horses.

3 Briefs

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Everything is on Time’s menu

Two New

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Essences of bull and bison,// stag and horse, illuminate/ the stony underground.

Shots Below the Brow

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His self-assurance says/ he’s practiced in the art/ of self-deception

Spring Miscellany

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Periclean Greeks/ had no plastics/ just littered the world/ with tragedies.

Spring Miscellany

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Because we are exceptional,/ our 3000 dead in New York/ exceeds in impact that of 75,000/ burned at Nagasaki,

Thoughts That Wake Me Like a Bad Dream 1 through 3

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The police states of German National Socialism/ and the Soviet Union are but pencil studies

Ballpoint Sketches for Banana Peel Poems

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I wanna make banana peel poems-- slippery little booby traps