Poems

magical mystery tour I am in this low-slung sports car painted a deep, rich yellow driving under an Italian sun. I have a British accent. I’m […]

Mama here I am in the ground my mouth open and I can’t even say mama, and the dogs run by and stop and piss on […]

Marina majestic, magic infinite my little girl is sun on the carpet- out the door picking a flower, ha! an old man, battle-wrecked, emerges from his […]

Melancholia the history of melancholia includes all of us. me, I writhe in dirty sheets while staring at blue walls and nothing. I have gotten so […]

Metamorphosis a girlfriend came in built me a bed scrubbed and waxed the kitchen floor scrubbed the walls vacuumed cleaned the toilet the bathtub scrubbed the […]

my computer “what?” they say, “you got a computer?” it’s like I have sold out to the enemy. I had no idea so many people were […]

my father was a truly amazing man he pretended to be rich even though we lived on beans and mush and weenies when we sat down […]

My First Affair With That Older Woman when I look back now at the abuse I took from her I feel shame that I was so […]

my friend, the parking lot attendant —he’s a dandy —small moustache —usually sucking on a cigar he tends to lean into cars as he transacts business […]

My Groupie I read last Saturday in the redwoods outside of Santa Cruz and I was about 3/4’s finished when I heard a long high scream […]