Each of us has our own / approach to lay the dead’s right / distal phalanges into the mass / graves some call our mausoleum

There is an image of a snake up on the screen. / It is consuming a four-legged creature

He lives / in the rhythm / 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and…

We spent years alone / selecting the correct glassware.

As if it holds something contagious, / the room is sealed with tape, and Dad gives me / a mask.

burn the pink petals within the / clouds as paws made of wood / and velvet tongues lick / whiskers on my face

i play you like a prayer; / sparse cries thrown / in eclipsed desires

I don’t remember if it was something that happened to me / Or just everything happening all around me 

Now extinct, the Susquehannock were a river people of unclear origin. They were said to have told European settlers that they came from a river far to the east…

I took a bite of the sun once / let it collapse inside // a celestial unbecoming: 

Under the Uhaul Ramp / Jaya had driven her car, and suffered a massive concussion

mold and softness / green, pliable like becoming / something else, like / like the / juice collecting under this tree

You kiss the woman with her head all cratered in / don’t worry, she says, I’m waning but catch me next week 

Life flows like water along fiction rendered into fact

Once upon a time, a lady cardinal found lodged in the fresh spring grass, a torn crumpled paper bit, the right bit to cornerstone a snug spring nest.

i printed my lover’s eyebrows / on paper inserts that accompany / things that keep other things / from dying

Maggie, Della, Tallulah, and I went flower-hunting in the mornings. We’d be flower-hunting while breakfast cooked over the campfire.

WWI: you fought in the Battle of Soissons, France, / allies vs. Germans, July 18-22, 1918.

You told me the trick / was to become only lungs / mimic sleep

Reading a quote a famous actor gave about the fiasco involving a certain movie, and how the movie was having its visual effects remade so the main character would be more palatable to the online public…