Sentries stand guard over the dungeon of Danae where I hide from betrayal and Zeus. I once had a child - not Perseus - born to a Gorgon...

Your abandonment was a whisper. Like the autumn breeze whistling through the dilapidated shack that creaks among the trees. I hear the...

But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. - from “Wanting to Die” by...

If I could just escape this skin. That’s the problem isn’t it? Wet footprints lead me back to the psych ward where my yellow grippy socks...

Today was the best day ever bathed in water and chlorine at Aunt Laura’s, open eyes burned below the leg kicks of the twins who love me,...

I skip a stone on the clouds it lands with a dehydrated sizzle the pathway through the park makes a sauna of my sweat and reminds me to...

a sequel always disappoints as if an ambulance ride could shake the suicide right out of me arrive at 2 am, examined for cuts on my chest...

Where do you see yourself in five years? standard question, no grounds for panic enjoy this week long vacation, no shoestrings or belt...

bamboo sheets breath inhaling my unwashed scent garments scattered on the bedroom floor dropped at random, pile on pile but I have been...

stomp the brakes, I hear singing from grocery aisles where packaged razors hang stumped cashier swiping blades and beets both stain the...

the corpse is showcased in a box my body consumed in the fire modeling a suit and tie heaping mound of ash and bone remarks on his...

I am not trying to claim a place I am trying to empty one this warehouse bursting with inventory that was not bought, still I have paid...

there's an apple tree behind my house flesh growing along the limbs bees circling, rushing to find the best seat blushing beauties,...

I sit alone in the grass juxtaposing the chilled aluminum can against the foot blistering sidewalk grilled burgers and corn drenching...

imprisoned rider scratched face slapped by dense pine-needled branches bullet beneath direct descent allergic to the sweltering mountain...

you wouldn't get it. this werewolf life. seized with mutation. outbursts of mania. melancholy howls rising to the crimson moon - deaf....