“Crows are smart”

T told me: “Crows are smart” then “You’re a different person from when you walked in here, your posture, the … More

Mercy. Road. Thrill.

What is: Kill

Sevilla: The elephant he come for the bull

The elephant he come for the bull the nod of heads, the “ Okay, my friend … “ the trunk … More

Crow decides, Crane rues

Crow makes a decision Crane rues his folly Crow, ”I shall land … there.” Crane, “Had I only … “ … More

Of crows the left-behind

This winter sees the bitternings of crows the left-behind of crows unsuited for flight of crows ill-equipped for animosity of … More

How do we, dolphin, kill him, shark?

How do we,  dolphin,  kill him,  shark?  How do we,  eel  kill her,  urchin?  How do we,  bee,  kill him,  bird?

Then Hong Kong, the snowboard, the concussion, the Matthew Sweet, the TS Eliot

@ LTF … Then Hong Kong, the snowboard concussion, the Matthew Sweet, the Peper-gone, Haley her mother, her migraines, her … More

Our son took wing without a prayer

Last night When the moon reeled When the gulfstream veered: Off the white cliff Took wordless wing Our son, sans … More

The mine, she always win

Eats her youngLike her brother the church

She bloom a hate flower through the bone crack

She aborted, I yielded

Imperative Summer with Sadie, College Park, Maryland, 1998 Dance with dog sisters in the sky, Fireflies and flickering stars, You … More

Un-jig, (traditional, as sung by the mother-in-law)

i had a daughter-in-law, where god often will put a jaw, that girl had a circular-saw she ripped my boy … More

Young lieutenants at End-Evening-Nautical-Twilight

180 miles east of Los Angeles’ pointless summers ran shaven, heady, lieutenants low-spark’d, high-heel’d, bat-faced wayward boys, they counted coup … More

This was the worst victory

At the 3 cuchillo strikes it take to put him down down This was the worst death, the worst fight, … More

This bull take the thunder over his knee

Bull feel the sword hit bone “Take your little boy bag and go home” Bull feel lightning spark “he take … More

I had a wreck on the street last fall

I had a wreck on the street last fall. Cracked the jaw of my fucking helmet I hit so hard. There’s a … More

Upon my friend encountering his first raptor

Like any discerning peregrine Your handsome hooded friend bore well away from the black-holes of carrion-crows Your condor sailed not … More

Back when refrigerators were iceboxes

Back when refrigerators were iceboxes, Dad worked for Texas Instruments When station wagons were bandaged in fake wood, Seatbelts never … More

All these years, praying to the wrong rock? Doubt not the geometers of spiders and gods

Doubt not the geometers of spiders and gods They’ve directed us to the incorrect rock So we pray the … More

Welcome to the wood-chipper (ded to ZdlR)

Take your mayor w you Your pimps Your whores Your civil engineers Your baseball scores “Welcome to the wood-chipper” … More

Abandon. Azimuth. Now.

Take your mayor w you Your pimps Your whores Your professors Your baseball scores “Welcome to the wood-chipper” Same … More

My brother was killed tending his hives

Artillery among the apiaryBeekeeper become bullet-catcher

Vampyra holler-hawks hand-jobs at the horse-race hoe-down

Vampyra holler-hawks handjobs Like them Pabst Blue Ribbon jerks To them underage Cracker Jack kids Still in hock to their hands Through … More

Peter Pan ate our family

It is a matter of what to be used for. What will one be used for Chris as terrible spirit … More

Vampyra drinks dangerous tea

Gargantua vampyra Rubs the femoral-vein Of her shrapnel side of beef Lolls That city-block Slab o’ tongue Over the icy … More

Insensible their overgrown hooves

Dessicated, Cheerleaders Shod in spikes Insensible, Their hypertensive hooves

Doctor, astrophysicist n a tree walk into a bar during the pandemic

The astrophysicist epiphanised that “nebulae expand, not rotate, motherfucker” The good doctor reported that we are star-dust The astrophysicist felt … More