Five intersecting rings
Five unconnected dots
Yellow or is it gold, for the boy who sprinted…
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Calving
The calf figures prominently in lust and life. It signifies strength and youth. Smooth, thick, sexy and muscular, we learn and laugh from calves. We are provoked. We cry, become jealous and aroused…
Empty Chairs
Two seats for people that should love
But are gone
Could stare into gray water…
Lip Balm
An ointment tastes
of things I’ve lost
Caked on at night…
Portal Hypertension: Time Traveling i-Phone
Just as veins drain from the gut and visceral organs and connect en-route to the liver, I squeeze through my own portal.
There’s space and time, a musty crack in the…
I Was a Boy Who Played With Dolls
It was the Mission Impossible TV show that peaked my interest in GI Joes–the idea that any record of my evil ideas would self-destruct, years before you could delete your search history…
Prison
TS told me in my favorite poem, to communicate with Mars,
And to report the behavior of the sea monster…
Counting Sheep
We meet over coffee, smiling with crossed arms over the creamer. She wears a woolen white dress with a bright pattern of squares in primary colors—like a Mondrian painting, a large bag over one shoulder. Under the other arm there’s…
64 Crayola Confessions (part I)
Apricot: I laughed when someone choked on a pit. In cinema? In life…
From the Writer’s Journal: Neuroanatomy 101
(written during my first month of medical school)
Brains, I look at brains
Ridge and crevice…