Everything, its own invention, happens eventually, although sometimes not at all: the music of fog, cannibal piñata, razor blade hula hoops. Have you noticed that if you talk about time, it [...]
Yesterday, we were out in the back, shooting at clouds. Except for the shots, it was quiet as a pond. Me and Dave firing our 22s into the air, just a few rounds. On a day like that, you don’t [...]
Counting backward in dog years, I fell asleep during my trial. I dreamed I saw the ocean for the first time. The sea’s blue voice opened the sky’s solemn jaw, while the waves’ tingling excitement [...]
Admiring the corporality of animals, we’re parked in the ghost car. I have an indoor question: How many misspelled thoughts must I have, anyway? There’s nothing more beautiful than wanting the [...]
The temperature crawls through the room. I swallow you, like a glass of water. On the floor, our deserted clothes rest comfortably as a sleeping husband recovering from a cardiac event. Your [...]
How does one build a robot snake? Like the Little Mermaid, with different kinds of scales, and a tail with a rattle? I’ve studied elastic statues, and I can assure you that skin is of no use. [...]
Why don’t you go outside and get some fresh air, Randal? It’s not good to stay indoors and vanish. There was no arguing with Aunt Jane. Of course, the new apparatus had arrived and was dancing, [...]
Your long beautiful legs, candy kiss smile—almost too perfect. Million dollar valentine, your ideas of perfection were far from flawless. My voicemails unanswered, I stopped by Wednesday, after [...]
Lost in sleep’s dark river, you, untranslatable, like a photograph of perfume. And that’s what I liked about you: shipwrecked heart, inescapable smile, Novocain eyes— like opium-soaked cloisonné. [...]
MATERIAL HANDLER* Loads, unloads, and moves materials, including Jesus slippers, grid squares, dynamited chicken, and left-handed monkey wrenches within or near plant, yard, or work site; A [...]
I feel it when I’m asleep. Sometimes when I’m awake, too. Those damn magnetic fields. My girlfriend, Raylene, says I should relax. I tell her it’s hard to relax when you’re in Demolition. It [...]
On my street, the trees don’t know their names. Paper boys are paper girls, who invisibly arrive and vanish at dawn. Our house, the one the color of milk, is surrounded by [...]
How does one build a robot snake, like the Little Mermaid, but with different kinds of scales, and a tail with a rattle? I’ve studied elastic statues, and I can assure you, skin is of no [...]
Years of sleep, that’s what we are, nervous music howling at itself, enormous, as this world and the next, bedrooms filled with little Elvises gyrating in an orchard of tears. It’s S.R.O. [...]
