November Is Coming
Valar Votaenus. All men must vote. Valar Morbhulshit. All men must pretend this is democracy. We echo that High Valyrian, playing this Game of the U.S. Throne. We feed that lie we are governed justly whether Lannister or poor, Dothraki or white, as straight as Needle, or as gay as The Redwyne Straits. Rare among […]
Rains of Joy
love cries from above: those cooling powers those downward- pulling reminders of how tears enable life
The Golden Spiral
I am a shell, among billions on this rocky beach; lonesome atoms provided me with form. Torn across this vast ocean, I spiral throughout time. Alone. Unnoticed. Yet I feel forever connected
When The Buzzards Come
give my boy his lil’ toy back oh lord when the buzzards come up cottonmouth valley, when they come to pick his bones. you said shake’m so I shook’m ‘til his lil’ amber eyes danc’d like them lil’ cussin’ bells. that lil’ toy fell like a buzzard ‘to the tub. i can only hear those ripples now oh […]
Night Shift
it was 6AM or 7 the night shift nurse’s aide changed the subject: you’re so strong. she frowned and swayed towards my arms my lips took on a faint smile my eyes slid across nothingness. earlier that morning around 1:30 or so from my mother’s throat I heard that first subtle pop that unhappy flutter: it only comes at […]
Heart Attack on a Tree House Ladder
my fingers slip-ping cool air squeez-ing my feet kicking sunlight my heart turning over my poor grand-son his wide blue upside down eyes
Takbir
Movement 1: The Savior Allahu Akbar! May my instincts explode on this primitive bark. These innocent people forced to prey. Allahu Akbar! May my nerves hold true as I sprint, as I vault, upon this empty, screaming man, his bomb, his unholy eyes. Allahu Akbar! May my thumbs stab those eyes through his sockets into his brain. Before his cries melt to ash. Before his […]
The Tail of the Beast
With eyes foaming the beast pounced, its fangs goring the throat of its prey. This prey, felt the beast, could not grasp his power, its mind defeated by his will, its soul unable to gasp one final, savage breath. Then the prey screamed – erupting with pain so electric, the vanity of the beast shattered. The beast let go, its eyes […]
Blessin’s from Delta Blue
Lord knows that noose like’t rip that boy’s head right off, Not f’r Billy’s ol’ rope. We cou’d hear a someth’n’ snappin’ ‘fore those big ol’ black feet crash’d down ‘n them roots. That boy sure cried out when ‘e hit, pro’l’ly broke his ankles. Sheriff an’ Billy Boy ’bout ripp’d all that bark right off […]
Toy Soldiers
Our flesh screamed as our fibers ripped from our beings the way oil spews from corrupted land. This crude circumstance – the ends of our lives – stitched together by lonely children playing gods.
