Category Archives: My Poetry

East of Hartford

Winter east of Hartford, winter east of Hartford, a four mile paved road, a four mile paved road, nothing but an abandoned power cross station abandoned to home the homeless, the homeless have a home abandoned somewhere east of Hartford, … Continue reading

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Grand Guignol

The satellite truck fitted with 27 monitors drives the streets of these cities capturing moments of rigmarole. Reporters stand in front of cameras and wait for a countdown from the button pushers inside some production booth clockwatching like thieves hoping … Continue reading

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Tartarus

I lack many things. I am blind. My skin is uglier than Egil’s bones. My bones horrify the good James Paget. I’m led away from stadiums through vomitoriums. I forswear my faith and from faith, virtue, and placed in my … Continue reading

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The Rose and the Red

Overtures are made. Music happens. Blame Canadian Mist and Mountain Dew. Blame the mix not the brew. I sat there stretched out in cummerbund, the circular table overflowed, sweet buns, wedding cake, something thrown, bridesmaids dancing in high heels and … Continue reading

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Skin Tag (an Exaggeration)

The sun filled my ears if not my eyes and I remember squinting in paradise feeling the cloying warmth. This was on the Venice Beach boardwalk, on a crisp November morn, amber and comatose; in fact so wearisome, during a … Continue reading

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Our House

Only the blood in my bones keeps me warm. Wake up to this chilling breath, shrouds out of my mouth, a dirge dog fog. My down comforter filled with sunken hopes, anchored by tears that swelled there. The marriage bed, … Continue reading

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Watching the Eccentrics

Red weather tigers skulk drunk sailors in dreams of the suspended men, the hopes of the men in red suspenders. The thin women in their awkward heels never received the awaited postcard from Vesuvious, their knockoff Hermes scarves in a … Continue reading

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Márquez en Mississippi

Indio, inculcado surreal y peláo del demótico inquieto, arrepentido, sudando en el extranjero. These dusty roads reject you. These suited passengers reject you. The grey bus driver rejects you. This language rejects you. Faulkner rejects you along with the confederate … Continue reading

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The Mansfield Bar

Not a drinking establishment, sparks strike when scraping asphalt, just twenty-two inches off the ground, a standard to annoy the truck industry since that infamous death long ago on a balmy night in June, “Kiss them for me,” she said, … Continue reading

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Tsunami Wave Train

for Morgan Gibson Spring sea; Blinking turtle exposed in drawback. Silent cage cricket, bitter persimmon, await moon glare. Laughing anglerfish rises. Fallen leaves swirl, dissolve in oyster stew.

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