Poetry

He whistles the punchline through thorn-sharp teeth:
“Shadrach, Meshach, and a Bad Negro.” […]

I have been shucked! I shudder, clutchin
the dried up thins of my husk. Crunches.
Cue horns, slow & croonin. Snake rattles. […]

Do everything you do to me
gently. Make my throat fat
and full with you, and easy. Make
me mouth your praises. Please
some graciousness from this trembling. […]

Test weekly, or: how to start small fires
in the kitchen. I place my lips to your chest
where the beating is red. You throb and throb.
Read: do not paint. Read: I am learning […]

The forecast assures us
of placid skies

but snow comes instead
commanding our attention […]

Heliotropic Crab Canon (Icarus as Felix Baumgartner)          Blooming from dark matter, I burst.          Then like a nova cleaving eternity                I vault       through the tropopause demanding an answer                from immortals.          Gallant taunts, love notes          advance like […]

I hold your heel while you wail;
my mouth skull-cracked. […]

I chase their bright twenties
and the steeple of their youth. […]

Nurses are typically women: what I think
when the goatee wants to take my blood. […]