Doug’s Food/Mood Journal AKA: LAST DAY OF FATASSERY
Day 1 – 12/31/12
7:30 a.m.:
1) Half package of Mallowmars, three …
online literary journal
Tagged editor’s choice
My Daddy Taught Me to Pack
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My daddy worked as a shipping manager, packing
train cars with odd-sized boxes of furniture.
He filled every speck …
In the Absence of Your Father
I – Scratch & Whip
Your father taught you how to overcome boredom by taking you to the racetrack. On …
Woman Behind Glass
She was not afraid to walk beneath the towering structures of dinosaur bones, held together by wire that was made …
Digging Deep & Dark
Deeply dripping dark dreams
Engaged erotically every eve
Five fondling fingers folded;
Girded goalposts give – go greedy –
How …
Saturday Nights In The Wash Tub
Baths for the week took place in the kitchen where everything was cooked and where the heat was retained in …
Aromatics
In your knee-high, tri-stripe socks,
you are the feather-haired object of my broken heart.
I have loved you
since …
Sarita
The flutter of paper thin eyelids,
butterflies ^
as
the dry rattle, the absence of a pulse.
^ …
nothing
what does it mean to stroll down cobbled roads with processed words to have money then lose it to have …
With Hands on the Wheel
She goes on driving, does not carry a gun. She has no gun, never will. Do not judge the harmony …
