Tag Archives: Collage

by the ball

Shadow Is A Ruin (redux) “Dig, Digby, dig!” Digby stomps on his shadow in the schoolyard. He tries to blot it out because it won’t stop following him. Digby believes the shadow rains down the indignities he suffers, although he … Continue reading

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abandon all hope 

purgative pejoratives operate upon mewith the can openerrender me a jaggedpiece of election meatmake my heart a hologram ringfestoon my cisgendered sexwith ringlets of onionsome states eat pets with abandon (abandon all hope) my patrimony bleedslike a curlicue fibberlet us … Continue reading

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seventh planetary boundary

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week Blue poured into summer blue,A hawk broke from his cloudless tower,The roof of the silo blazed, and I knewThat part of my life was over. — Stanley Kunitz / “End of Summer” As floodwaters … Continue reading

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life i hate

Found Page from a Forgotten Life I hate life I hate the Bay City Rollers I hate Silva Mind Control I find something new the year after it’s new. I’m watching Lloyd Dobyns and Linda Ellerbee and they’re presenting a … Continue reading

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thang a thang

dullard-boy blues i gotta wap a dap thang a thang in my belfryan a framework for nuthinin my eyes ise got the bully-boy blues& a highlight reel of murderous abandonin my dullard-boy braini’se be living where realitymeets the fictions& i’se … Continue reading

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damaged by change

To Snare A Ghost (redux) (a blackout poem) Final List Electric bedroomNew witchAdd wall next to trackWedge or arcChange entry Too damaged byChangeWe want to keep them at 8 foot heightCloseMetal doorsNo change to living hard painChange vanityApart (we may … Continue reading

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do go careening

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week The only rule of travel is,Don’t come back the way you went.Come a new way …There is no question I am someone starving.There is no question I am making this journey to find out … Continue reading

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ice mommy malone

found voicemail tanscription blues . . . do not use the toilet and flush with the reserve water held in the tank or water that has been saved in a bucket or nearby tub no flushing UNT5IL the end of … Continue reading

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in this (my) neighborhood pt. 55

What I’m Reading: . . . for in Mumbai, as in Miami and many other coastal cities, these are often the very areas in which expensive new construction projects are located. Property values would almost certainly decline if residents were … Continue reading

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sieves for dinner

a stipulation of daffodil testaments the two avant-gardesgardens of impassioned afterimagestwo claps for toe taps and mushroom capsi propose sieves for dinneri propose we clamber on gravestonesthere are captious eucalyptus there rescindingnext year’s ready to wear linei’ve seen the theoretical … Continue reading

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