Tag Archives: Nonfiction

Ready to Order With the waiter largely offscreen, none of the cheeses are what they seem . . .  Absorbing his friend’s accident—a taciturn stoicism gone limitless and flagrant—growing increasingly unsettling as midnight strikes and the Gouda appears. Bystanders switch … Continue reading →

make a flat about me implore the dishesas an ill-fated magazine mightafter a few tumultuous departuresspent amiably among the geraniums she wheels an epilogue of desireswords pale in sequencemisericordia perhapsa sugar narration for certaincut along the arthouse seam it rains … Continue reading →

These Were a Few of the Dreams These were a few of the images retained: The final scene is all she remembers. Massive black horses in water—a marsh, blue sky, angry cumulus darkness roiling in the distance. They need this, … Continue reading →

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week The dead are carried away in tote bags.Because they got carried away, they are borne away.Only some of those borne away got carried away.Some of the others borne away were newly born or else … Continue reading →

stained pink rayon first responders were able to get him outthe stained pink rayon nightgown beneathhis torn clothes was unexpected no one says a wordhe was not in the water but he was takenby the 8-foot wave nonetheless rough surf … Continue reading →

Queen Travis Meets Whit Fictions (redux) Queen Travis declaims that feculence has nothing to do in this affair. She says: “I was bequeathed a third rate hand me down in consignment and inquisitiveness—a loan from dog. I’ve got the scrabble … Continue reading →

excessive levity markets are draftedinto stock fists on actual horseback see ya in alaska now that 90 degree daysare common + we float away on glacier melt wildfire smoke flood tornado broadapplications of anthropogenic love for ma earth physical comedy … Continue reading →

Muted Video Feed Fugue (redux) No need to look at me while I write, she thinks—and what’s this mass of entropy floating next to me? It seems most people go off-camera for the writing bits, then so shall I, she said … Continue reading →

What I’m Reading: Americans are paying more for appliances, home furnishings, toys and shoes than they were a few months ago, and they could soon face higher prices on more goods as the Trump administration’s latest round of sharper tariffs … Continue reading →

incandescent with skeevies (ekphrasis) i fit flatly thru thee wall warp thru the weftwed with the grainwatch the disappear(er)nearer to bone than blood i fit flatly thru thee wall fall into this encasementincandescent with skeeviessockets of the eyesim defectiveim deflectivelisten as … Continue reading →