Poetry

Bird

Your geometry stands, backliton the stage in my headcool as a double Brando on the rockswaist-high in the blue miasmaof woody cigarettes and Chanel...

Diamond Sutra

An impossibly blonde Jesus stepsup to the Mudville plateswinging his turnkey providenceknocking...

Outmate

A spacious cage; freeto move about, pull threaded needlesthrough cranberry tasksstrung onto life's...

On the Other Hand

Because he is my left hand, you seenot the right.
The right hand is a showboat, thequarterback...

On the Other Hand

Because he is my left hand, you seenot the right.
The right hand is a showboat, thequarterback with all its dexterityalways threading and opening andmaking the thinnest slices,
the finest linesThe left is the practical unsung.  It is theopposing force of pressure...

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Khmer Rouge

To open this issue is to give wayyield to the gush of blood and timepushing me, without a mind to know why, backinto a glowing Gold Rush Bodie orpre-war Saigon with its smells ofsoup and charcoal braziers and livestockdirty bare feet marking time with purposeover a...

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Elysian Bar and Grill

Is it a relief to you, Godto pester me with lint, with secretsalways others’ secrets that youknow already?Some bartender
you’d be,serving up our trials like aGordian knot on the rocks.It’s hearty tuck and roll in your lounge.Some bogus tint tamperswith the prairie...

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