Vondel Park

Did you know? As you dreamed your dreamless sleep Within that temporal existence You were with me at Vondel Park You stowed away on the back of some...

Thick

I woke with the moon The morning thick in fog and exhaustion A swelling sleeping underneath my heart, and pressing against my spine I can only imagine...

‘Her Spirit Rose Under Its Influence’

Crossed in love, dusting the few flawed flowers in a window box, an imponderable falling of snow   begins in the town square. It is gently scheming, it is...

What it’s like

Mom came over in the 70’s. The oldest of nine, she set the shining example of the possibility of the Western ideal. She never talked...

This Racket Seems to Like a Good Poem

First off, my poem only shuffled the deck chairs of the digital. Perfect pixel smear into e-waste. No geography except streets, wires, toxic dumps, etc.   Like a modernist...

The Divorce

Dream Images

“Memorize scripture fast as you can, fast as you can type memorize it quickly and then write it down so that others can read...

Making Ends Meet

Ever been to an auction—not the ritzy Sotheby’s kind—the local estate sales? Just remember two things: although beauty is in the eye of the...

Puppets

I was in a city on a Sunday and all the passers-by seemed to have thin moustaches, wraparound sunglasses, and mossy army-surplus coats. Everybody...

Manners

Just stop being a fucking PUSSY and TAKE IT, John says through a wet grin, and pushes a grass-covered ping pong ball in front...