the sky is gauze, white-grey today / I’m in my car, with a broken heart / tuck in slow moving traffic / zombie drivers, headed nowhere / By the side of the road / six horses in mourning / the se…
gilded cage of natural beauty / Edge of the world / Edge of reason / next to nothing / fresh air, stale minds / provinciality / Have you ever left this place / South Arm / isolation / go far away / th…
I drank too much coffee yesterday / then sat pinned / with you on my lap, asleep / like one of those padded safety bars / on carnival rides / I became the captive audience / of office politics / three…
The whole time we were home, a tiny message stared at us from the corner of our blackboard. “I ‘heart’ U”, it said, in tight, angled, masculine letterforms… written by a …
a room of beaming simpletons / hold their breath / and celebrate / the mask of technology lips, like blisters / eyes, cut and repositioned / snaggles replaced with gloss / “now they’re …
I knew a man who made it / and then he unmade it / fifty times worse / went from pinnacle / to pit / in triple time / The night I met him / we sat on a hill / watching derolicts / like pigeons in a p…