stories of blunderbuss

On backroads in Kansas, past the dark glowworm trails a radish-man lies telling stories of Oz He holds mustard-dipped gravel to tell of the by-ways he spins like a cyclone of locution and bywords moving nothing but lips In the hole where they grew him lay devotions and spirits that fled his corrupt house when [...]

In Public Conversations

Fenders crush and mangle; glass is thrown like a bad hand to pavement and thru flesh.   Then a dark red rises on the horizon of a dashboard Bodies stumble out as bright colored lights announce, in hysteria, their tragedy.   …And all in the world glance sideways and drive — to their parking places [...]

The Plight of the Social Dodo

Aboil in a kettle on the Isle of Maurice hollow bones crackle and flesh loses purchase prepared for the maw of knowledge unloved a dread hunt to cleave, fowl shot for to broil so restless and staring, their dull eyes unset their grasping hands muddied and bent to the task To be kings in the [...]

Groan-ups

Ever correct in     perplexing views         an exchange below     in gray, floor-less rooms and glance down so quiet     to four-fold horror’s crux as their grips exhausting     revolving blades pull to serrate their lives and adorn a husk     to free from the jargon         like dead fireflies and Intrigue [...]

ballpoint

Lotsa nice mornings lately. Sometimes sitting with a book, sometimes I’m in someone’s arms just whispering in the mid-morning light. Mornings are slow but evenings are more unpredictable. Sometimes slow with leisure time and confusion over what to do, sometimes packed with homework, and sometimes packed with silly endeavors and entertainments. Btw… I fail at [...]

graduated sheeting

He doesn’t see faces soulless things, shallow reflections or he’d see the confusion in Constance’s sad gaze A driver at the pineal wheel with a flock o’ automata the dualist paused and drew lots more than Ivory could handle Dame Understanding uninviting closed her shades and dimmed the lighting with not an offer, no, not [...]