Stories tagged poetry

Breughel sings for his supper in U.K. Inc.

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Were I to attach this wire to a conch could I talk to the sea as well as listen To mended ways, bees that hum? In “the land of opportunity" poesis brings a Peacemaker to go on. After a hundred days the IceCream Men had…

At the Grave of Yasujiro Ozu

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Good Grief

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Slowly slowly the veil is lifted

I heard You Like the Back Seat, Honey

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It’s okay if you do

Epitaph

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Jesus died in diapers

Elegy and mother

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An old cuttlefish swaddled in kidskin cat bagged in the surf but it wasn't to be. Skipping, a scudding windswept Fata the log, bleached woman would come of a night and gently blind fold her. Lay her down in the brittle faith. They would all smile later. D

Five Days Under A Fridge

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The Southern Comfort he sits outdoors in a snow-storm’s snowflakes collecting in his drink.

Some Last Things

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if you whisper your truths, they’ll disappear

Sunnyside Up

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I'm up before you, Painting with a mop and bucket in the sun: When what was left of you dried I fried the eggs and let you see The first of many horizons Set to disappoint with hope. In the corner of…

Tethered

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Handsome are the houses,effigies in synthetic stucco: prosperity divinedbehind parted walls. Behold the ersatz simplicityof the residential subdivision, contrived construction inline and line and line. …

happy horseflies

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I repeatedly smashed the Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Exposure

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a wish for other

Some Last Things

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if you whisper your truths, they'll disappear

C.O.

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C.O, we ran a few schemes past you, Cabron! Camelita with three cigarettes tucked inside her French braid. Her mother was cool. She left her needles behind after she was escorted to Grants, pine cones embedded in the dirt-floor bedroom our teen-t

Noirish

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Noirish Drips riddle a rubble into puddles, lick lakes and pratfall like a tongue Nourished in silence you take back your lips, They've never worked your mother says, Your teeth must bear the wind. In French films you will admire the…