Originally published (March 1, 2021) by The Dead Mule. Our trailer was at the bottom of a rocky, red hill. We were surrounded by forest that formed a bowl our trailer rested in the center of, with its only exit being the manmade rock trail that snaked up the hillside. It was just wide enough for a single vehicle, which
Originally published (November 1, 2020) by Coffin Bell volume 3, issue no.4 Mythopoeia. My boyfriend’s name was Stephen. Stephen worked in a botanical lab where they frequently researched new and evolving plant life. When Stephen would come home, he filled his evenings with discussions on flowers. He adored beautiful things, flowers being one of his favorites. “One of my colleagues
Originally published (September 2016) in Geeky Press’s Bad Jobs and Bullshit: It’s Unlikely We’ll Be Missed. I worked at a large chain department store in the southeast. We specialized in everything outdoors, from guns to swim trunks, which catered well to the caveman-like conspiracy theorists and government haters alike. He was an elderly man named Eddy. As a self-proclaimed Christian,
Originally published (August 2017) in Adanna. Lilith lived in the stairwell. Cast in bronze, she was a rendering of the female form, caged within the walls of a gaudy bed and breakfast The Garden Estates. She had been cast in a delicate, demure pose. Her hands held her face as if she was too embarrassed to meet anyone’s gaze. She
Originally published (February 2, 2014) by scissors & spackle. Falling, lifting, jumping, tumbling, writing, reading words on paper, pages, paper, pages. Pacing words to find words to find words to find fine dining, lining the streets with gold nickels and brass plating. Plating, feigning and raining open worlds, open worlds, curl and unfurl, furling, furling, furling outward. Out, out, and
Originally published (November 30, 2016) in Five:2:One Magazine. We like to pretend like we don’t care, 🙂 JK LOL <3 We actually care a lot more than we’d like to admit, 🙂 JK LOL <3 We pretend to be educated, pretend to be rich, pretend to be tall, strong, blond, tan, 🙂 JK LOL <3 But IRL we base the
Originally published (April 27, 2016) in The Highlander. Clot, clot, clot,The heart,The artery,The left and the right,Stuff the trunks and the arches,Cave in the vena cava,Slip into the segment where the secrets are,Where the paling pulmonary:Beats, beats, beats.Batter the beating heart until it bleeds,Bleeds out the secrets and the tales,Hidden deep, deep down in the apex,Echoing in the atrium.Pump, pump
Originally published (April 28, 2015) by Marr’s Field Journal. Ocean like an ink well, drop drop drop as the people as the people like pens across a page. Dotting “i”s crossing “t”s, dotting eyes, dotting eyes, dotting eyes as pupils listening to teacher speak. Teacher speak, teacher speak, teacher speaking to empty schools of fish. Blue gill, dace, flat bill
Originally published (August 29, 2019) by Z Publishing in Alabama’s Best Emerging Poets 2019: An Anthology. I want to write a poem about outer space.A science fiction romance.Two lovers, stars in the Milky Way.Lovers, obsessed with the moon, Saturn,With nebulae and star clustersBecause there’s a spark in – a fascination inThe absence of civilizations – other lifeforms –The unknown.Because stars
Originally published digitally (January 15, 2014) and in print (April 1, 2014) by Crack the Spine. MOVIE TICKET Crumpled crumpling craving of life of social interactions. Entertaining interactions for days, upon days, upon days. Days of new, new never needless, new never needless needling its way into an esophagus. Esophagus, ectopic, endometriosis, elephants in the eyes of archaic symphonies. Symphonies