Category: Poems
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At Twelve O’clock, Longing for Eleven Fifty-Nine
The Negroni sunset off his bald pate says it all, says diabetes will get me in shape for prostate surgery
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Effable
Forget everything you’ve ever learned about frangipane. The real focus is the frankfurter, that sweet weight on a plate
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Disciple
Why sheep? They have no superpowers and make terrible pets.
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Snowfield with Blue Fences
When the morning alarm frazzles the peace, best not to think, just rise into coffee to the desk carrying your brain akimbo
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Review of “Filtering Jameson Through My Liver” by Brian Builta
You needn’t read the entire poem, but you’ll like the hunger in the kitchen section
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Flight Plan
Not sure which bird lifted first before the whole flock
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How to Clean a Fish
First find a frail wooden dock off the shore of a body,
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Nest
Waking up is always disappointing, your people still dead, Ukraine still invaded
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Stunning Weather
Shark-infested liquids are good only if you’re a shark – even then, the silence.
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Show & Tell
Fourth grade, I vomited on a stack of workbooks Mrs. Smith was grading.