MY WRITING

When my mother laughs, A sunburst of striations explode From her left eye, The same asymmetrical Grimace which spawns On my own temple...

The auctioneer’s daughter Holds a closet off a seldom Used stair Where the West Wastes away A rough rider’s jacket, The velveteen vestige...

Like a wounded Wildebeest, Our Tavern sits Abandoned, About to die Heaving boys Forming foaming Rivers of half-digested Booze down the...

I Amidst the mayflies And the cattails, Men shrouded in an Eternal faith Danced with the gnats And the crocodiles And the Fire White...

I notice flowers emerge from our eyes Monstrous petals obscure the pupils Irises cover irises A million spores, each with unique Motives...

There was an old lady who Lived in a shoe, Suppose her name was Mary But what if god chose wrong? Impregnated The wrong Mary And too many...

Humming cicadas Blanket a certain plain, Where newborn reeds tussle And a lone doe waits I watch at the balcony as The shadow of a dim...

With cuecards Places a coxcomb on my head And tells me entertain, The involuntary actress of a Sunday mantinee I suck on a cigarette,...

Oh, Jovial actor, Round the kids’ Round table, Why are you Without script? Cast without Line, The onlookers of your Favorable twins Old...