Womb
SCENE 1 Two grown men stand in a fetal position, facing each other. The swishing of amniotic fluid and a heartbeat are heard in the BG....
Bucket Lists
I want to outrun a grizzly bear. I want to be the least narcissistic person in the world so I can tell all my friends they need to be...
On Being Trapped at the HIV Outpatient Clinic, 1989
Sometimes it’s merely minutes after I arrive before a nurse takes me back and checks my weight to see how much I’ve lost. Not today. No....
Existence in Epigram
“They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris.” Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance “I have to rest.” I...
Spiegel im Spiegel
Like we used to carve our names in the bark are we who are partly remembered in song wholly present in that part of our souls when we...
Never Lovers
“Leave me in an anguish of dark planets, / but do not show me your cool waist.” Lorca I Since you have never seen Granada’s blue-black...
"Small Town Crown" and "Aubade"
Small Town Crown 1. A woman weeps in a bar, ashes her cigarette, grows gray as trash tumbling in acid mine seepage. They say, “Pay your...
Two Poems by Jaden Stafford
Dark Cloud By Jaden Stafford How selfish, dark cloud… to be grieved by the flowers you left. Found withered and frail, because you stayed...
Four Poems by Edward O'Dwyer
Good Machine Cogs Our clothes are Guineys’ finest, our delusions of grandeur five-star as we relieve would-be afternoon tea types of your...
Hold Your Head High
Hold your head high You have been placed here for a divine purpose Do not believe them when they say you are worthless You cannot move...
