Tea and Cake When my knees scrape rock bottom Death lifts up her manhole cover and invites me in for a warm brew She tells me my body can...

Breakfast Blown from Canada Another egg cracked, another omelet browning, flipped in a pan. The north wind this morning tastes of...

Wasted Bone-deep aches anchor him to his sour bed. Outside, rainfall makes laundry impractical to contemplate. Once, he recalls, vigour...

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by video games, they said, by movies and television and violence on the news and rap...

You say the cars seem to float among invisible gray whales, a sheet of slippery sea beneath our peddling feet The body of the city is...

It’s all there for free now, all there for her swooping down in plain sight, in broad daylight, hands out in hungry claws pulling all...

Potion to Shrink In a dream, sneak away in cover of night corsage tucked tight around pounding wrist pulse thrumming through thick veins...

Pirouette His hands moved me like strings attached to a marionette deftly, as I danced for him my body lifted to each movement of...

go outside and play turned into locked doors and space away from yelling at one another. mama looks out the front window. nods as she...

Wordless Poet Rain tracks down my cracked window pane, gusts spray droplets, pattern late summer’s dusty coating. Smears spread down,...