Reading Time: 7 minutes Rhine Valley 857ad Emelisse stood in the main square overlooking Drachenfals. The hill, caused by magma rising to the surface, blocked out a third of the bright blue sky. Around her, people were beginning to cut off their limbs. One man was on fire, having run into the smithy mere moments before. There was a Read more
MoreReading Time: < 1 minute We set our dead into tidy rows Writing pages of graveyards, even though Whether they’re verses or curses Is known only to those Who can read it from either above or below.
MoreReading Time: 3 minutes (Inspired by an impromptu prompt from L. D. Lewis.) “Do they eat cucumbers?” Ryan asked. He tried to scratch at the opossum’s neck. She recoiled and hissed. “Don’t give him any cukes,” Toni said. “Then he’d be coming in my garden all the time. I don’t want that.” “She. It’s a she.” Read more
MoreReading Time: < 1 minute Laundered. One hundred percent Pima Cotton. Carefully buttoned onto a soft hanger. Smells like nothingness. White like sun-bleached stones. Fits over tattoos tribal and otherwise Fits over tanned biceps. Fits under impressive hair. On Anthony Kiedis’ mind is every song he’s ever sung; ballads and rock and funk he couldn’t give the key to Read more
MoreReading Time: < 1 minute fake poets spray word confetti from mouths of blunt teeth from brains filled with something like television that never turns off fake poets think and say their way inside bricks get out again using tricks abstracted from mere mortar fake poets compete with hoddies to win gravity sweepstakes where no one’s survival is considered worth Read more
MoreReading Time: 2 minutes Oh, I too want to be a poet! and yet Tell me where is meaning bred In my heart or in your head? Is it in ancestral words or in your presumptions of what’s unsaid in the surrounding static or contextual tapestry that birthed the utterance of a syllable of a what is meaning and is Read more
MoreReading Time: 3 minutes As a kid, when the Juneteenth, I had no idea what Juneteenth was. I just knew it was one of many summer festivals in Milwaukee. This one started with a parade that traveled the length of Martin Luther King, Dr. Luckily for my best friend TW and me, we lived only two blocks away from Read more
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