an angel/a demon On the map, the road forms a right angle and is very thick. This is odd, but I don’t worry about it because of the dream. A brown-haired man. this is his home, but the waterfall will take you down and kill you. You must avoid this. everything else is achingly beautiful. how could…

big-face I have friends now. I don’t participate in my own oppression. I went to the place today. It was all very impromptu and shit. Bill called. I said: hey how about we meet at quarter to eleven? And he was like huh? Okay. I went. There was probably gonna be unpleasantness and meanness on the…

the good and the bad In the rain should I bring the car around? (me, Lois and Nate). I can’t see. It’s raining! Wait, this is worse than sixth avenue in downtown Manhattan! The traffic in college town. Four lanes each way. Green highway signs. What? We drive thru laneways of brutal, fantastical…

Dunkin Dump I hardly ever go there at all. So what’s her problem? I go to the Dunkin dump today. That’s their latest ad, I swear. Gyrating sweating girls drinking some kind of protein concoction and doing splits. Lot of lipstick. I don’t go there much. Maybe once a week, once every 2 weeks and…

another one All this shit going on. I think back to the first time I met my mother. She was on a couch in a back room living room of her house that was so out of the way it felt adrift. She was scribbling something in a notebook and rocking back and forth slightly. If you were a boy, she says.…

“TEA & HONEY” There is a round headed, younger guy there. round all over. Pudgy and obnoxious. Says his name is gallon, like the jug. He has a big wallet chain and gangster style, with a baseball cap that says GOAT. Tuesday night I drive in the freezing cold to the radio station and everyone is…

Death ship On the ship, there is something wrong with the food. One group gets this, another gets that. Lois leaves. I have no idea. At the beach, our section is blocked by two wires. I walk alongside the wires until I get to the other section. Huge waves crest and crash over a coral wall. People…

potato head I work late at the restaurant and can’t find a machine to punch out my timecard. Wandering the hallways of the giant school. Teachers line up tiny children in wooden chairs. They glare at me as I walk through. They don’t take any breaks. They are welded to the caregiving function. Out…

this is what makes him a man Is this good thinking? The b names aren’t working out. I should go with Dave the Original. Is this a good idea? my head! I mouth the words of a prayer. on tv the guy was on his stomach and had been tased by multiple cops, all the while chanting the serenity prayer. I…

medium cappuccino Today I met bill at the ugly Dunkin. At 1:00 in the afternoon, past the time other bill would be there. So. Fine. Just fine. Bill is doing good—appetite good, no ill effects from what he’s taking. Glasses girl was there. Actually she ain’t no girl. Wattle effect I have one too,…

katy in the race for my life. Katy. “You did this to me many years ago,” she says. “I’m sorry.” She puts me in the Mexican deconstruction chamber to pay for my sins. I emerge, sucked dry and a monster. “Look,” says the man, “here is a tube. We plug it into our necks. We become revitalized.” I must…

NY. Ontario. I’m in a hotel room where I live with my strict father. On the wall is a door, made of a piece of plywood nailed on. there’s a tiny gap and I can see the Indian man and his thatch of black hair as he sings and drums. I can just see the top of his head but the music is beautiful.

shoe guy My Justin cowboy boot is coming apart. This is a problem. I get a curved upholstery needle and some embroidery thread on it. Sit there and try to jam it thru the leather. Nope. I can’t see trying to fix this myself. I’ll totally wreck it. So. Go on my phone: “shoe repair near me”.…

pop-up demons In the giant city the entrance to the building. I go in. Mobs in the pulsating mall of consumption. jostled by crowds I am carried past a pizza place. “I have a check for $12. Do you take a check?” “No.” jostled away where is the exit to the street? I just want to get to where the…

boy The water buffalo grabs the gear, pedals with its teeth. “leave it alone.” “no. it has to pay.” “what’s wrong with you, O’Reilly? Are you just that sad?” the baby hippo. The buffalo. They’re just sad. “Stone them to death.” the men drink whiskey and hurl the rocks. I am his boy. We live in a…

lead fingers We live in the open-air trailer park that goes down to the lake. I get a job at the Mexican place and put the peppers on the stove. Lois has a fit and we discuss. Fear of abandonment. I will not abandon you. This is not the same. My fingers grow nails of pencil lead. They are square…

lobster Heartache and despondency at the grocery store of the middle east bazaar. I sit on the conveyor belt the women don’t notice me I am dead. I walk into the covered parking lot. A man with lobsters in a cooler. “how much is a lobster?” “$535.” “Oh. Ok.” Movin’ on. Men in black yarmulkes…

mule feet Are these my clothes? Yes. Wear layers. See my parents. Under the truck in the shed he pushes the vehicle with the other guy I see his mule feet in flip- flops I just want to run the streets. Not be here squeezing thru this small hole in the wall, married to jeff. Did you see the sun…

いちめんの椿の中に椿落つ into a field of camellias, a camellia falls - Tokizane Shinko #senryu

happiness is: an unfinished flower arrangement mid-morning #senryu

morning laughter, several cups of after-Christmas coffee #senryu

Night night Blue Sky dreamers! See you on the other side! Sleep tight!

freeze-dried The top of the building is ugly. It is orange with awnings or some shit. It is Dunkin. I go there today, to meet bill. My friend. Not the other asshole. I go on Saturday at 2pm because even if donut man is intent on being a company guy, I think it is highly unlikely that he’ll be…

hard case A cold morning at the church the guy is standing in front of the stairs, dragging deep on a cigarette and squinting at me. He has red hair, red facial hair.  Blue eyes I’m sure. I’ve seen him at the coffee pot before. He gets coffee and leaves right away. He is a hard case. He is…

Generic AF It's been a tough week, I’m not gonna lie. In mourning for McDonald Man, time to make the donuts with my little woman oh my god and then I was ghosted by Brian. Seriously. Like, no explanation, just no response to anything. Not to mention melissa. We won’t go there. All on my own,…

witness Went to a few meetings after this last thing. What is miraculous is that I went last night and by this morning, when I went to another, I was like: what did I do Thursday? Like: who? Like: who even cares? I really don’t. That is beyond what is humanly possible. There is one who has all…

charnel house You don’t have to do this ever again. Enter: the charnel house of my dream. The sideways snow. The cancer drug. glasses girl. The man who rubs my face in shit. The crew in reflective garments. Three weeks to become assistant manager He asks for his woman: Glasses girl. He is…

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dragon I talk to my friend bill. I purposely do NOT look at the pass. The needle, the spoon. I turn my back on it. My curly fuckin back of my head hey get a good look at that, motherfucker. My friend is up against it. I talk to him. At one point the guy walks past me to the bathroom, all black…

that’s life Ask the 8ball. One day one thing. Another day another. He walks out the door. glides, right to left, in his blue jacket. Bagged out levis darks. past the big windows over to kinneys. He comes back in the other direction past the same windows. At the last second shoots a furious laser…

bone broth—wrapped up thousands of times in silence #senryu

in the waiting room a therapy dog seeking breakfast #wss366

in white magnolia rain dirt roads turn darker than dark #senryu

my heart stopped when you died... not in the rhythmic sense, but in the far more delicate tiny-birds-in-a-nest one

your sweetness [the memory of] is the drink that sustains me

farmer's market a goldendoodle dressed as a turnip #DailyHaikuPrompt

almost sunset a gray cloud shows its golden lining #haiku

all night workshift something charming about smokestack smoke #senryu

lonely highway a billboard encourages me to "live fully" #inkMine

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a chilly autumn day

against this darkness millions of tiny stars rain in windowlight

border town a liminal space between life and death #blueskyrelay

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liquor'd dreams... aghast at his cold manner #senryu

the body found they stand in a circle old Spanish moss weaves all through the prayers for a girl who died young #tanka

around a pile of mulch cigarette ashes the faraway look in daddy's dark eyes #tanka

how hard i work to write tanka in a fixed form... making it a point to ignore a winking white moon #tanka

on the stove a pot of beans slow-cooking in the sun-room reading a Harlequin #tanka