My Stories 1019
Not I, Not I, Rimbaud
Rimbaud was once the boyish face of Leonardo DiCaprio, teetering atop a Parisian set, nude
Poetry: Life, K+, English, words: 81, 5/27
Violinist
Your neck when it flops back, lost to the pleasure, mouth agape.
Poetry: Love, K+, English, words: 160, 5/27
Anton in Converse
Or just, etch my name, long as it is, onto the sides of your shoes.
Poetry: Love, K+, English, words: 119, 5/27
Verdana
Her father is somewhere in the garage getting high.
Poetry: Life, K+, English, words: 88, 5/27
Hot and Horney
I say, he makes me nervous, willful, dejected, flick of the wrist, inconsequential.
Poetry: Friendship, M, English, words: 52, 5/21
Miguel, 1998
As the cherry blossoms were blooming you told me about the school shooting.
Poetry: School, K+, English, words: 194, 5/21
The ghosts of exiled lovers eat ice cream by the carousel
We watch the ghosts of exiled lovers eat ice cream by the carousel, similarly we nibbled a shared piece of cake in a bar in Texas once—you took one end, and I took the other, but we never met in the middle.
Poetry: Love, K+, English, words: 298, 5/21
War Story
How can I describe the loveliness of her eyes or the upturn of his mouth.
Poetry: Love, K+, English, words: 165, 5/13
Bad Snow
Missing me enough to tell me about how bad the snow was.
Poetry: Love, K+, English, words: 49, 5/13
Flight Back
The beer bitter, at the pub, you rolled it over to me told me to taste.
Poetry: Life, K+, English, words: 65, 5/13
Hemingway trims his beard
He once stood in a hair salon in Paris, once let an oriental women shampoo is large skull in a basin of tepid water.
Poetry: General, K+, English, words: 148, 5/13
Darrow
When we were younger, we protested the Iraq war downtown, stood on street corners with homemade signs and the dogs on leashes at our feet.
Poetry: Family, K+, English, words: 186, 5/13
Blues for the better
And he is speaking Spanish and my heart was breaking and the baby was given a Zapotec name.
Poetry: Family, K+, English, words: 194, 5/7
Ask me what I'm thinking
Tell me about Eugene and Portland, tell me about the time you lived in Alaska.
Poetry: Life, K+, English, words: 124, 5/7
Anglican
The ministers cat was dead and my mother was dreaming of Virginia
Poetry: Love, K+, English, words: 187, 5/7