THINK FAST

the elevator arrives but u forget why ur there

too many days saying not this

or [worse] hearing not chu

Apr 15, 2025
  •  
Poetry

Tuesday is Fry Day, 1989

Before sunrise,

a red-blooded man

says he can cook

me a Bundy burger

if I want one...

Apr 14, 2025
  •  
Poetry

For Logan

Have you eaten? I have. I’ve eaten your order.

Apr 13, 2025
  •  
Poetry

Baby Racoons

Yeah live forever mood

as a minnow school

flutters patches of pond

& gramps jumps into one of those

haggard, saggy, where am I? naps.

May 21, 2024
  •  
Poetry

i'm slime

but that doesn’t mean i’m

            not deserving of

kindness.

May 10, 2024
  •  
Poetry

What If Pop-Punk Kids Lived Forever

What if Jefe’s never got condemned, if

The Backyard never changed management, if Tiny

Robots still played gigs.

Apr 9, 2024
  •  
Poetry

[Horns everywhere]

a whole gigantic marching band, one that used to be louder than bulldozers, louder than  jets, louder than Aunt Catherine after three margaritas (no salt)

Jun 19, 2023
  •  
Poetry

Partition

I hoped you’d grow into a southern red oak speaking of your roots and the struggle for sun.

Jun 6, 2023
  •  
Poetry

Why Don’t Vampires Just Hold Blood Drives?

I want a little more bureaucracy
in my horror.

Apr 12, 2023
  •  
Poetry

Side Cars are for Bitches

Zach Braff is the perfect manic pixie dream boy
for any pet funeral, and yet, I suppose
he didn’t get the memo that he was meant


to come down from the Garden State and do the honors.

Feb 22, 2023
  •  
Poetry

Half Past 11:00

HALF PAST 11:00 sleeps in my bed and refuses to be

roused. I tuck the sheets in tight before I leave for work

Feb 15, 2023
  •  
Poetry

Red Filter

At the dark sky campsite I put a red filter over my flashlight.

Feb 1, 2023
  •  
Poetry

A Conversation with Frau Schiele

He only allows my entrance to unbutton my dress
and form those animal poses. To be near him
is to be reduced to line

Jan 11, 2023
  •  
Poetry

Outro, Prelude

Here,                         riding in a taxi on the Manhattan Bridge
late                            at night in a pit-pat drizzle,
everything                looks puffy from the back seat window

Jan 4, 2023
  •  
Poetry

Photo of a Turtle in Which No Turtle Is Visible

Just under the browned swamp surface: a reaching
neck (not pictured). The edge of a stick (pictured).

Dec 28, 2022
  •  
Poetry
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