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Short Stories

Journal

Poetry

Little Slice of Hell

Poetry ·

You are never as exhibitively candid As in the throes of passion. There your soul bared And your urgency And desperation, complacency Or command Is primal and loud... It is where…

Baby Teeth in a Jar Beside the Bed

Poetry ·

Baby teeth in a jar beside the bed Have a smell Like baby's breath Fermented and distilled Into spirits That never float off of the floor, They sink in a river of complacency And…

Sunshine Mourning

Poetry ·

Take in the sound as a whet; the crunching of snow under the night where frost waits for the air's embrace. There peers the solitude breath of nothing less than insignificance and…

The Garden of Heathens

Poetry ·

Judas Iscariot On his twenty-seventh birthday hanged himself in the garden. He pissed himself Watering the ground under foot where the roots harden. The tepid knowledge of Stoic…

Her Last Lingering Lover

Poetry ·

She looks out her window at the remnants of that year’s garden. Time, the banal paramour, runs its fingers through her ribcage into the heart she feeds an overflowing bowl of…

A Beautiful Mind?

Poetry ·

A poet sits at a desk under a stubborn warm light. Drunk on contemplation an old alcoholic with a dirty face, and a beautiful mind. He thoughtfully pulls the wings off a fly to…

Lot's Wife Fucked Ups

Poetry ·

Somewhere in Genesis Lot’s wife looked behind her. She was perhaps intrigued by the mayhem. She turned into a pillar of salt. Aren’t we all pillars of salt?

Poetic Rhetoric

Poetry ·

Something so fragile— the poetic divide. The oyster's heart inside the pearl, a worm that dissolved where it lay down and died.