Sometimes your head is full of wings. Sometimes tender monkeys hover in the foliage. Plush safe you think but the world can be brutal. Both Kahlo and Basquiat spent months in bed after collisions. His mother brought him Grey’s Anatomy. Her mother made a special easel. Soon he was an x-ray. He could render the brain’s wiring… Read more →
when the end of the world fails to arrive nothing for it but to solstice on December dropping darkness shortened days short focus sending weak rays more readable sometimes half-past apocalypse quarter-to skating first only snowfall fifteen inch blizzard swallowed by open lakes their wide mouths speaking muted volumes but we keep spinning half- life of my attention span shortening… Read more →
My footprint nearly filled my father’s as I followed him in the frosty woods. The sun was sleeping somewhere beyond the trees that surrounded us, the only sound the soft crunching of our footsteps. The brown leather quiver on my father’s back was filled with three red fletched arrows. He was slightly stooped as he walked, head down, choosing his… Read more →
You go back when you can’t deal. It’s kind of like jail, when you come back, you commit a crime so that you don’t have to face anything. There’re only so many days of polishing the boots you have at your home, while your wife is making excuses to go to The Home Depot. “What do you think I did… Read more →
Postcards Day after I purchase the snake I get a postcard. From my brother Doug. Older by six years. Hey Bro it starts. Doug doesn’t phone or email. Sends postcards. Usually fences. Split-rail fences like out west. Or wide plank fences that keep back horses. All kinds. This latest being a high fence like Tom Sawyer painted. We grew… Read more →
I am dreaming. My new monomania, Kelli from acting class, Virginia slim, long tawny hair, edge-free face – basic nightmare – verbally assaults me in my car, in Brooklyn, my home. Our real-life conversation on the college green is light and guarded but in my dream she dryly attacks my character, delivering her words with stretched vowels and the hard… Read more →