Is the absence of things the beginning of things yet to come the beginning of new beginnings running into the void him his fire stick legs burning energy momentum propeller engine run clutching his fire-red model firetruck The boy is the unspoken among us the tried the sure the true…

Those who live longest never sleep in one position* those who cry loudest never get heard Why is that? the opposite of our needs are met boxed, tissue-papered, and be-ribboned Our desires lay desperate naked (like) prisoners on a concrete floor Everything whispers at midnight and ears…

The magpie screeched ‘grief grief’  then screamed  I thought of rape and murder  and all living things swimming  beneath the current of…

Iburied my father a long time ago as a child every now and then I’d excavate him turn him this way and that like a cardboard cutout of…

When my teeth fell out I stopped laughing it was odd a celebration at last freedom a humbling hurt so exquisite  no longer looking in the…

I love you because I cannot help loving you because of the words you paint the words you claim the things you see the hymns you praise I love you because you see things I have never seen and never will without your aid because your mind…

Dead Max, I call out to you where are you you who have never been born or lived a life of pain and discomfort you who never struggled in the birthing chamber or slipped slippery wet through the vaginal canal shall I count your fingers and toes answer them for you there are birds talking outside the window on…

What was it that made her| a visible blue blur for a moment a-flush with rage and shame It swelled her face vibrated her head She felt her…

The odor hangs in the air Is it like cinnamon No, not like cinnamon Not half as sweet Is it like peppered corn No, not that either It isn’t quarter as nice Though like pepper it carries bite Is it like lavender No, lavender soothes the soul and calms the head Is it like Night Jasmine No, Night Jasmine has a flowery…