You love to paint on my face. You love to fingerpaint. Dipping your knuckles and the tips of your fingers you would paint the night sky...

Pacify that cliche, before I ask what "This" means to you and we discover, out loud, our mismatching wavelengths, resign to hushup the...

NOTES FROM MY NEW COUNTRY After Suji Kwock Kim The travelers are tragically far north dispossessed of home. They dig future graves with...

Jest The worker sits on a wobbly legged stool, on uneven cobblestones, whetting their playfoam sword with a pet rock. They are guarding a...

wait! wait for me, wait up I may be late wait, don’t rush me. your game: I wait we’ll meet later not just yet you’ll arrive as soon as…...

Fragments 3 stuffed black bear stands just inside the doorway of one of the shops in Bar Harbor. Can’t hear any echoes. There are no...

* portions of 100 Clews have appeared in SPORK and FENCE clew: 1. A ball of yarn or thread. 2. Greek Mythology The ball of thread used by...

Heady Lesson #1 Take a head off keep the words inside put it in a briefcase—the big one with all the important files—brain and veins...

THE MAN I MET ON GRINDR says we didn’t meet on Grindr, says it’s best left to the imagination of what our spouses might say if they were...

Plant your feet was his instruction on how to hit a ball or break a jaw. I was young enough still to dream it or at least remember my...

In the center of the chateau, urban sprawl is a real issue. Lemons lay in a bowl split open, half and half. Layer your love along the...

Let them sleep Once I wrote A small moment About two English soldiers In France In Love In 1431. I didn’t Do the research On English...

GRIEF - I run far & fast & I’m gone like the light, a switch I turn off every morning next to the outdoor sinks. My vision blurs with...

[Of barbershop pomade] a man who can't die isn't tragic like jesus is totally untragic like i want to be magic — the tragedy depends on...

Cabin Named Laura I bring my hands to a splintered piano feed the music its own teeth Erroll Garner kneads the air pretending to sleep...

Dear 光 (aka I hope you have time for this poem)-- it’s been a while since you’ve written a poem or arranged the sonnet, with arranging...

M—th—f—e— (Mouth-feel) Prepossessing is a recklessly long word for p——y. (pretty) Wide entrance. Double d——ed. (doored)...

Emily & the world Tedious summer sun refuses setting, keeps time — makes mind of buzzy bees. There was bird, then there wasn’t. Bird...

Kaleidoscoping Around The Haibun Of The Last Can Of SPAM Over the horizon, xenophobia is a blue eye peeking from the other side of aisle...

My Dreams are Commands (Diary Cento #3) Dreamt that testicles were small skulls and crossbones Discover that the hairs that have grown on...