She picks a conch shell out
of the pile in the terra cotta pot.
Thousands of miles from its home…
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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 …
Falling to Bits
I masturbated mindlessly to the violence on the screen. It was a report of some tragic bombings somewhere far away …
In the Absence of Your Father
I – Scratch & Whip
Your father taught you how to overcome boredom by taking you to the racetrack. On …
Her Favorite Colors
You can probably picture the little nowhere town of Westfield, New Hampshire, with its trailer parks, abandoned factories and half-empty …
Ontario, Me and Tommy T
Lapping slowly up the shore
The city rises like the tide
Higher and rolling back again
Until I am waist …
Impatient
A virgin, I carry an empty:
an accumulation of space.
A sign around my neck: the core
of my body …
Dermatophagia
I’ve been eating the skin off my hands
for as long as I can remember;
all-purpose tools, obedient pets,
hot …
nothing
what does it mean to stroll down cobbled roads with processed words to have money then lose it to have …
Frank’s Reviews
Frank P. Belcher had for very long been feeling small and unimportant in a world that had become big and …
