A Lesson in the Lining
I thought it a treasure map Channels I could follow like great-grandfather with his dowsing rod, that tobacco and animal scent that I can...
Cotton Candy Ghosts of the Pier
like a late summer bee diving into a bowl of pollen He's outside smoking beyond the thin curtain framing him, bridal, in the gauze of...
An Appointment, Aptly Kept
Fingers percussive along a trouser slick thigh silk tie tight and casually throbbing against your neck your throat will you get it – will...
For Those Who Know the Sea is Green
Some feel every earthquake others learn to sleep through the aftershocks I want to feel every little tremor/ in our holy origin story...
Off the Deep End
Learn to read and speak from lost tongues your language, whatever it is wherever you are Find the map, the locals ask – Where to find the...
Apple Chaining
skin more easily bruised than thought/more eager to be wrapped and bound/by iron holding them to the earth or they’d float upward –...
Arts and Crafts
Living, in fear, while thinking it’s courage that’s pushing self-sacrifice for the greater good always afraid I’d find you… and break you...
The Candy Coated Court of King Frostybuns
Duchess Flawless Butterlard Career: Though her name was Flawless, the Duchess always suffered a deep shame in losing her horn at an...
Why I Married the House Carpenter
Inspired by “The Daemon Lover” a Scottish Ballad An archetypal story A phantom is always easier to chase/The chill always easier...
Celestial Burlesque
This feminine spectacle, this aerial act Most tantalizing when fully covered in gauzy red-amber, in umbra or penumbra, winking “The Girl...
