Stories tagged poetry

I Don't Think I Love You Anymore

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You. You are like a pill, best taken with peroxide in the middle of The Sahara while playing a drunken game of William Tell with William S. Burroughs. Your side-effects include: Regurgitation Broken apartment leases Loss of…

Homing Pigeons

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Sometimes, they beat their masters home...

MacGuffin

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a breath in whisper

Trust these Feats

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Trust these feats that do not movein the eye of the world but the will it doth weave;Tho hopes once lost to dreaded dreamscome 'round once more to till the seeds;Where I await on thee to beof turning wheels, of desert leas;Of golden sun, of thundered sky,the erg we fill,…

Quick Teen Summary & Sky Riot

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two small poems connected by the mud

Lightning Box

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eat the marshmallows, fuck the cereal

clocks

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cigarettes are clocks that measure still time

Robespierre!

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Wheat and the city. Would it make a good new show? The story of milled wheat, AKA flour, navigating The beltway to get to the last standing patisserie in Baltimore? No, because wheat isn’t a protagonist. Is it driven by a Buxom girl with thin

One Poem, Eight Rejections

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Do you suppose you could make your female protagonist a salamander rather than a human?

Totem

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Within resides a serpent

Nude Body of Gutters

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You lose her. In the vortex of guttered water, her tangled hair entwines. Tornado-like. Her body spinning boisterously at its core. Her name: Izra—the wooden doll with black pebbled eyes. …

Consider the Living

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we're not at war / with the world. We have papers.

H.I.M. #1

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My son in seventeen syllables...

MacGuffin

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a breath in whisper

taking work home with you

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the sound of ashes/ being poured in the kitchen