Dear Straight Girl on Lesbian Tinder,

Dear Straight Girl on Lesbian Tinder,

Shut Up and Kiss Me
 — a country music sestina

It’s hotter than hell, and we’re flyin’ down that two-lane,
windows rolled down, me…

Meanwhile, in Callahan…

The slap of the screen door as it closes behind Babe causes her to start. Dammit if she hasn’t asked Earl a thousand…

Song of My Dog

O I perceive after all so many uttering tongues,

Mysteries of the Missing: Arthur McMaster Reviews Geraldine Connolly’s Aileron

Aileron, by Geraldine Connolly. Terrapin Books, 2018, 104 pages, $16.00 ISBN: 978–0–9982159–9–0

Podcast Breakup Poem

When we first got together, we were like Serial Season 1 –
We were daring, exciting and new.
Everyone loved us. Our future…

Majka

1. “What would induce a woman like you to go out with a boxhead like me?” Darko ambushes me outside Pet Valu on a sweltering July afternoon, hauls…

Lessons My Mom Taught Me

Mom tried to cure my flat feet by taping a bean under each tender insole. It was supposed to make me sensitive to the way things feel when I step on them. And it worked — about as well as the artificial poison she painted on my thumb to make me immune to all sorts of bitterness.