Real pain is catharsis, as if to say, I don’t want to go running, I want to have sex with you. Now if you’re to stay, you said, put your hands here. But there are other rules. I have to taxi. I have to descend. My friend was listening to an instructional Hendrix song, which […]

THE ROSE Cupid coughs and out comes a rose. The flower’s wrath digs a pocket of thorns in Cupid’s throat. He tries to speak but his voice box is filled With the flower’s hot breath which stirs up shiny demons So Cupid cries diamonds all afternoon. He goes to the shoreline and walks on ice […]

When the wind was a smell came across too green and he nearly tore me into feeling like chopping down a tree the sweet blood smell all over me I remember everything needless temptations to leave in a boat a tinted photograph of his wife but be careful you will fear the strange shoulders patched […]

A   whole   holocaust    doesn’t  just     get  lost       Ma   (a)    fa         I woke up   knowing my  body  had forgotten   how to form    the   words     mother     and     father      ma   a […]

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I feel uneasy in the Flannery O’Connor forest, myrtle and poison ivy, oak flags twitch where  they’re bound to the leaf mat, vaginal seam up a beech tree. Years ago, shots like pots and pans, belled hunting dogs behind me—  the illusion of consensual combat, the beginning of a long breach that rooted deep and […]