bees

bees

the doctor wants to know why you’re angry. you shrug. the bees are dying. and that just doesn’t seem fair.   she informs you that anger is a “secondary emotion.” that what you really are is sad, or guilty, or deeply, desperately afraid.   you dismiss, but not six...
A Continental Wave

A Continental Wave

  A continental wave driftsacross the world as my gut bursts with laughterlike the mall santa during the holiday season,            A sign of consumerism. My heart doesn’t ache,My mind justwanders as water across a canvasof coated steel. I love it, I can see them     ...
Giulia Tofana

Giulia Tofana

I – the toxinpearly grey bane in palm sized perfume bottlestwo drops added to beetroot soup and served for supperso the antidote can dissolve their crueltylike flaking frost in the midday sunsinking its teeth into wicked, brutish fistsmaking them limp as their...
A 900 NUMBER

A 900 NUMBER

She made her living delivering phone sex. Her looks were immaterial. Her tongue, her throat, her voice – those were the curves, the siren eyes, the dress tightened round the thigh like a hangman’s rope. Her kid tucked in, prayers said, it was time to tell strangers...
Hail

Hail

Hail of the moonlight showers in my sole night These needles pierce my skin that wants holy warmth, and bloody loneliness dyes tonight indelible...