Absolution Villanelle. "The disbelievers have been led astray / by Allah, who sends them all to Hell / He has no mercy; they cannot be saved." A private jihad

Lacuna the temperature dropped three hundred degrees and the air was let out of the room, the sudden unknotting of a balloon, the bed, the room itself hurtling into the clear blue sky. I was something organic, a part of the ground, and I could not move.

Hawaiian Falls They want to go to Hawaiian Falls, chase the coquettish call of hurling themselves off a water slide thousands of times taller than they, give up all semblance of control over their own destiny. My heart plays tribal drumbeats.

Confidence then do my hands grip tighter,/do the innumerable swerving chemical pathways/in my brain leave just a little more room/for cheer?

1 Conservatism My family is very proud—/and with good reason: poverty, snakelike,/eats its own head; my dad escaped on Air Force wings.

There are more important things I died studying biology today.

freeteenchat I pumped my dick, the one-handed typist, hoping there was a girl on the other side.

Amphipathic Inside my kitchen sink a hidden battle is raging.

1 scienceispoetry A Keats and a Newton, listening to each other, might hear the galaxies sing. -Rob Lightner

2The Greatest of These The unexpected love between a devout evangelistic Christian and an atheist, told in chapter and lyric form. -Genesis 1 up!-