At The Rally
Abstract Poems Grab your coat tails! An encroachment on slippery slopes Because your megaphone gives you Ephemeral rights over the air It pierces using your voice Would it give a permanent View to...
Image Curve Blog
Sleep Over
Poem My nephew turned five and asked me to sleep over the other day. We’d spent most of it together: going for dim sum, then a puppet show, kicking the Hover Ball, building...
Our Post-Mortem
Haibun Poetry I sit on your beige sofa across from you in your living room. Mike — your husband, my fraternity brother— prepares the VHS tape. Of your wedding. There is a moment...
The Human Comedy: Taxi Tao 2
Short Story Dana got into the taxi. “Port Authority,” she told the driver. “Absolutely,” said the driver, a mid-30s man with an unmistakably non-native face and accent. “Where are you from?” Dana asked...
Dream Repeats
Consciousness Stream Alone in my cold bedroom while sleeping and dreaming sometimes hellishly dark images would come in repeating frequency, for some twelve years from age seven to my late teens. The haunting...
Battling Myself
Poem My voice flows in time, I am the energy. All eyes on me, climbing steadily. My words etched in your mind indelibly. One of a kind, a pedigree, top dog, better believe...
Starbucks Soliloquies
Short Stories Somewhere, lost in Yemen, there stands a banana tree. Not just any banana tree…your banana tree. And your banana tree grows tall and fruitful as all banana trees should. Otherwise they...
The Baker, The Butcher and The Brewer, Part One: The Baker 39
Serial Novel The pipe opened a tiny metal box and fished out some tobacco. Packed it in his second pipe and handed it to him. The Baker’s contemplation of his line of argument vanished....
Bury Me With a Smile
Inspirational Poem When I die, bury me with a smile So everyone will know my life was worth while. Put me in the box, but leave out the suit. Let me wear street...
Dreamy Beautiful
Poem Let her beautiful silky texture wear you out When she rushes at you and slowly retrieves. Let her get exhausted at your feet. Allow her to let you breathe. For how many...
