I remember trying to fall asleep many nights on the stretcher arm draped over my eyes the diesel and latex smells the pressure of the arm on my eyes…

++August, the last of the apricots haunts the trees. Their furred skins, split, rotten and dangerous, crawling with stingers on the unseen side of the globes. ++Above me, buzzards tilt…

+++after Charlie Kaufman Do I have an original thought in my head Does anyone What about an epiphyte Does it bloom with the same knowledge that’s stored in a tree’s…

  Anything’s lucky or unlucky just because someone said so once and we all agreed so I say Friday the 13th is a lucky day since it reminds me of…

  Larkin said: “I know this is paradise,” picturing those fuck-drunk teens who brushed past him on the cobbled street: the boy’s hand on her hip, beer on his breath;…

  Meditate: though you balk at stalk, my tassels tantalize, manchild majazzling, intricate florals radiate out from the central sunflower, butterflies dally, dance, bees prance, bumble, dizzy, bop-pop out like…

  If you hold the syringe sideways, is it more gangster? You push the plunger through the barrel. The hilt of the blade hubs the needle, holds the shaft’s darkness…

  I feel like I am forgetting something every time I travel. Outside baggage, four excavators paw at the wreckage of the old terminal like the horses whose barn burns…

  From his schoolbook, the boy tore out a map of seas. The teacher with her sunny face and scraped-back hair wasn’t looking. The blues were beautiful. He’d never seen…

  the stew sauce sizzles little hope & joy accumulates we are made of what we forgive i go out for care, gaze & liquor i am the sky &…

  To a world spun around one question. To the geometries of the radio bird on brown brambles in winter— to our kitchen doors & dens of disorder. To the…

Your mother wanted to give you an origin story of which to be proud, not the embarrassment of finding out she was pregnant while working the land records of the…