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This time of year, the words on everyone’s lips are, No, no, not now. Speaking of the dead; they come from a long, venerable line. But who’s counting? Not even the mathematicians. A similar [...]

I don’t know why you can smell rain and lightning coming on. Same as I don’t know why I married Crystal. Twice. Billy-Idol blonde, S curves smooth as hourglass sand, salt and pepper bob, she [...]

“Scooter and Sweet Thing” is in Unbroken Journal, (No. 28) January, 2021 “Long Black Car” and “About the Weather” appear in the The American Journal of Poetry  [...]

I’m wearing my lucky pants. Everybody at the post office knows me. Yesterday, when I walking to the liquor store, I noticed somebody peeping through the blinds. I’ve been trying to trick myself [...]

Science has shown that you shouldn’t name your livestock if, one day, you intend to eat them. I bend easily to temptation, especially when I’m landlocked by the energy fields. Normally, I do all [...]

Prose poems, “Smitten,” “Applause Track,” “Better Mileage,” “Love is Like That” and “Black Box,” will appear  in Flash Boulevard in 2021.   “My People,” “Suburban Landscape (with Flying [...]

  Wednesday, on the way to the carwash, my car caught fire. And not the good kind, either. Sheila came running up to me and said, Everything is getting worse and worse. I told her the main [...]

  “Not a Kidnapping, Per Se,” is in Golden Walkman Magazine, May 2020 (Audio starts at 11:47)

When trying out a new pen for the first time, 97% of people will write their own name, yet 1/3 of suicides don’t leave a note.   Appears in Democracy of Secrets a chapbook from Right Hand [...]