Mist covers the ocean and beach.It's cold in the house. Empty daysfilled only by the needs of the dogwho stays on the bed as if she knowsthe woman will never return. Notyet trusting the man who let her go. Read More in Poetry
Stilton Beach
The Bee’s Sting
After Salvador Dali’s “Sueno causado par el vuelo de una Abeja”, 1944Dali’s goddess of fecundity floatsOn the rock of nudity like a pomegranateBursting open with lucent crimson seeds.She is dreaming of Bernini’s celestial elephant,Levitating between Dali’s earth and the cerulean skyOn the lithe arachnid legs of her own wishful memory.Now a bee buzzes inside the... Continue Reading →
Time and Arrokoth
Just after midnight, 2019, a metal object with roughly the size and proportions of a grand piano drifted by two enormous rocks fused together in space. It would take months for the images gathered by the satellite dish of the New Horizons probe to reach earth, four billion miles away...
Untitled
about this piece Untitled 2019Digital PhotographEdinburgh, Scotland See More in Art...
at the mouth of the tomb
fatigue ismy raincoat it’s beena wet spring sending aflood of synthetic dancers politicians andhereticsraining down shoddycounterfeitcoins pour fromhell’s own slot machine intothe lap of the worldthis is anear miss comedy a picnicof nothingbut yesterday’s cold coffeeand raw injusticeall bridgesburnt windows nailed shut strings pulled tightour one briefopportunity squanderedin petty squabbles when hunters the dark... Continue Reading →
The Theory of Non-Relativity
The massless particlewhich passes through vacuumwithout encountering any resistance at all,does not differ from the onethat does not pass at allLoneliness is self-sufficient,as they say and,etc…You’re the last dark matterfrom another outgoing nightbut why don’t you come with me, whydon’t you come in meto see that there’s nothingharder thanforgivenessthere’s nothingharderI will fall asleep now just... Continue Reading →
Interstitial
They passed a law over a decade ago in our state permitting us to marry, but we never did. To my Liza, marriage, organized religion and hypocrisy are human institutions to be abhorred. I was buttoning my shirt this morning, contemplating the peculiar technology of the button and wondering at its history, how it evolved... Continue Reading →
lipstick
the skyan intractable bluepromises nothing buta night of bitter coldi’m not deceivedby the brilliance of fallit’s nothing more than a trick of natureall the warmth implicitin those redgold leaves a liethe smile of a serpentcloaked in temporary beautyabout to strikedelivering the deadly kiss of winter Read More in Poetry
The Orchid That Looks Out Our Living Room Window
does more than look;it watches withmoisture collectingin the hollowof its wingdewy anticipationdisguised by a hot pink hoodand in my case sunglasses a men’s visorbrave petalsturned bright petalsafter five p.m.when we come homea helpless wildcrawls up its stem andmy face when I lookin the mirror disarrayed by my own wiltingmomentary joyfills the view;it watches withpetals pleatedpetals spreadbrave palmsturned pallid palmson... Continue Reading →
Dog Down
* Author's dog Nai'a We put the dog down yesterdayCancer in the gut ate her upSlowed only by CBD, the miracle elixirthat gave us six moons more to howl with gusto and gloryNai’a was she, “dolphin” in Kamehameha’s tongue,a name we learned in Fiji, and liked and would have named our daughtera child who turned... Continue Reading →