From the 2018 Collection "The Dead Dog Parish"
I remember being unmoved at more than one funeral at more than one memorial looking about impatiently impervious to the cries of the cry…
With a sword karma sets straight what’s veered. By her sword does Justice dispense simply
Pretend like your hell is the new normal. Now the space is calm, and poignant, and telling.
Eyes to the ground, cutting through an alley, ruminating about a fight with a si… I notice a stray dog following, when I stop to pet it
Love is endless. Mercy, too. A great debt unpaid, sitting on my doorstep, first-class.
Here in the suburb of Royalwood e… looks as it did decades ago, entro… where the deep slumber of human li… age and breed with rapidity and se… We sat out here and explored the…
The choir of the saints is heartle… They’ve parried happiness a lifeti… seeking the old earth, the marsh of the meek— where earnest suffering is woven w…
Empty Avenue, Death on the the installment plan, Righteous lady, insolent man, I, patience expired.
The bar room is a bed of embers fanning themselves expediently, huddling to outlast the dark. A whoosh of autumn air ruffling their complexion each time
There in the mast of the sailboat one of the many slumbering next to the spit There by the lowered sail
When I see the little holes where the earrings used to be I wonder what they embraced and then renounced to get to now.
As a child I saw the meaning in n… I beheld the color code. I would dream of my bed whirling, I would feel my bed spinning. To take a birth here is a hard fal…
One of God’s tricks is, similar to Michael Jordan, It sinks a three-pointer with 1.2 seconds left on the clock,
Hollow fang? Volcano. Cat’s purr? Hymnals. Intuition?
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…