From the 2018 Collection "The Dead Dog Parish"
Their adversaries’ heads were placed in a Styrofoam icebox and it still wasn’t dissuasion eno… The chase of supremacy lingers until the farthest reaches…
The choir of the saints is heartle… They’ve parried happiness a lifeti… seeking only the old earth, the marsh of the meek— where earnest suffering
S, I gotta tell you, this sixty-five cents is worse than a lump of coal. I pray the remover of obstacles
The Eye of Providence harbors no grudge, holds no thought of evil. Knowing this you may boil in oil,
Every once in a while, when my bunkmates are asleep (or at least I hope they are), and the jingle of the keys fades to the end of the hall,
As far as the eye can see— Limitless blue nowhere to be found.
With certitude was the stove on th… as it always was, warming my feet… next I was on the floor and it flo… and then flashed to a different po… upside down
Black Mirror Obsidian Infinite gaze Hideaway of prototypes Mental, Causal larvae
Ancient meadow preadolescence, burgeoning and righteous never-ending dimension first sighted past your fingertips… is stolen by ambition,
I saw a man and his crumb snatcher… sprawled on the porch of their hom… it was painted a bright ocher with… small, modest, humble, clean, givi… A joy, in short.
Forget shoplifting, not pushing your cart back to the cart-corral is the true crime. Amazing,
Pretend like your hell is the new normal. Now the space is calm, and poignant, and telling.
So many things I don’t really care about the mail comes you know it isn’t easy to show that I care
Good Monad, In all bad news I see how strong we are. This life confusing,
I saw him on the side of the road, on the side of the interstate exit… Maybe he was 18, definitely not 21… tired but not yet haggard. The moment I saw him