My Stories 1061
From Baltimore to Basque Country
About pressing your face to the glacial cisterns, the flash of a camera, dilated pupils, heavy dreaming.
Poetry: Love, T, English, words: 153, 6/3/2022
A submarine, Miguel
Icy cold and the girls throw a Frisbee from one end of the field to the other, stony, we look on, watching.
Poetry: Friendship, K+, English, words: 103, 6/3/2022
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, 5/27/2022
Violinist
Your neck when it flops back, lost to the pleasure, mouth agape.
Poetry: Love, K+, English, words: 160, 5/27/2022
Anton in Converse
Or just, etch my name, long as it is, onto the sides of your shoes.
Poetry: Love, K+, English, words: 119, 5/27/2022
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Verdana
Her father is somewhere in the garage getting high.
Poetry: Life, K+, English, words: 88, favs: 1, 5/27/2022
Hot and Horney
I say, he makes me nervous, willful, dejected, flick of the wrist, inconsequential.
Poetry: Friendship, M, English, words: 52, 5/21/2022
Woden in Wallamina
Wednesday was a cat, caged.
Poetry: Love, K+, English, words: 131, 5/21/2022
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Miguel, 1998
As the cherry blossoms were blooming you told me about the school shooting.
Poetry: School, K+, English, words: 194, favs: 1, 5/21/2022
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, 5/21/2022
War Story
How can I describe the loveliness of her eyes or the upturn of his mouth.
Poetry: Love, K+, English, words: 165, 5/13/2022
Bad Snow
Missing me enough to tell me about how bad the snow was.
Poetry: Love, K+, English, words: 49, 5/13/2022
Flight Back
The beer bitter, at the pub, you rolled it over to me told me to taste.
Poetry: Life, K+, English, words: 65, 5/13/2022
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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, 5/13/2022
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, 5/13/2022
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, 5/7/2022
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, 5/7/2022