Tower Point Lookout Blues, Chorus II

"Tower Point Lookout Blues, Chorus II" now up in the CIRQUE Spring 2020 issue! Buy the print issue, and/or check out the free pdf at their website. I'm on page 98:

Blue Oranges

"Blue Oranges" appeared in DEAD FLOWERS Volume 2, #5, page 11. December 2013. (Now defunct)

Blue oranges

I like how you can peel them in one big

continuous peel and set the peel on the table

still roughly holding its round shape while

we place slices in each others mouths

and I love the tartness of the orange

and you sitting there in your lime bikini

smiling at me ogling your bruises from the

riding crop you asked your boyfriend

to use on you last night but you change

the conversation back to my website and

answer my previous question about the

monthly analytic explaining who is visiting

and why and how they got there using various

search terms like moccasins and macintosh

apples and violent sex so that I have a

sense of what I should concentrate on in the

long term though for now I will continue

my list of songs that make me cry like Give Me

Love by George Harrison and I Live For You by

George Harrison and even Isn't It a Pity sometimes

by George Harrison none of which you say

you've ever heard until I sing them to you

watching the blue orange peel or rather

the spaces between so as to avoid looking

at you again and again

 

black like your bra

Appeared in THE CHIRON REVIEW, Fall 2018. Print. Order your copy here.

black like your bra

black like your bra like a bad girl

black like India ink in your sketchbook

black like notes in your comp book like fly shit

black like your hair like an evil flapper

black like your eyes like buzzwormholes through time

black like your mole like Marilyn Monroe

black like your

                           boots like you could kick my ass

black like your panties which you make me wear

black like your heart like heavy metal love

black like your guitar like your monster growl

black like coffee like you prefer your men

black like your laugh like I-don't-care-fuck-you

black like your cat like a familiar                                  

black like your poison thought-control lipstick

black like absence of color

                                                without you

[I bought a fake owl]

I have a poem, "[I bought a fake owl]", in the new Ghost City! Come for that, stick around for the great stuff in their new March issue! 

On Teaching Again

"On Teaching Again," up at Vol. 1 Brooklyn explores returning to teaching writing as an adjunct after having previously been a full-time teacher.

Two Movies By Tarantino

"Two Movies By Tarantino" appeared in THE CHIRON REVIEW, a print journal, in Fall 2018.

two movies by Tarantino

one movie of Quentin

Tarantino's takes place in an empty

warehouse in Los Angeles

with three men all

seemingly gangsters

one gut-shot dying

an undercover cop

tho no one a hero

decades later I still think

I understand him

his distance from everyone

unable to trust but liking

bad people who still

hold some sort of code of

honor and his doubts about

himself another film

of Tarantino's has a man

taking his boss' wife out

she likes going barefoot

and likes him too or the

freedom and the man doesn't

know if he should

because life is after all

like that you are in

desire you hold a syringe

of adrenaline with a woman

overdosing in Los Angeles

the fiction is true