frannerisms
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Tiny metal sea turtles wear five-leaf clover hatsand dance to reggae music asthe happy dogs play poker in abandoned subway stationsa father’s voice on the radio a mother’s face on a billboard I feel a family I do not haveI am small, man on stilts. A nightmare, a bad dream,a fluorescent adolescent with the orange…
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¿Es hoy el primero de abril?¿Por qué no puedo ir a la playa?Ah, si.Dicen que una bruja se está casando cuando hay sol y lluvia.Estoy cansada y soleada. Estoy sola, si.En algún lugar, una taza de aguase rompe o se queda en el microondasmedio olvidada, sin tomar.Esto es ambos la normalidad y algo gracioso y…
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Man that I melted, your wrought iron offends me. Let me pastyour moat, the password is ‘envy.’Pigeon mail fails and compromise corrupts; skin your knee scaling my walls,I’ll patch it right up. Temple to temple I’m hot let me in, Marcobeats polo but nothing beats fins!Are you holding your breath underwater?No, I’m mourning your offer.The…
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I had legs before the boa constrictor ate them for dinner, and a nose before daylight’s saving.Had cheekbones, a salad fork, and an extra blanket before the dish ran away with the spoon and left me playing rock paper scissors with our waiter who just wants a tip on how to balance his tray.Something inside…
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A Haagen daz strawberry ice cream barbent copy of Water for Elephantsbight green and light blue microfiber small towel rag clothsfear in most of the available shadesan indifferent sunshinea houseplant, three inchesvacuum, greymistakes are planted and spring into palm trees I’d never want anyone to force me to write about itNever had an Easter like…
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I’ll say nothing, fly on robes and carry parts of both of us straight home.Come to Clockwise and Crooked Knee;I’ll burrow in broad-shouldered bridges and sunsets screaming pleasefrom children we become menbut some of us turn into stare crows and scare the layered ends.quiet ambulant leavesevergreen trees bend over to whisper their repent.
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to be fair, I haven’t been outside yet and my thewindows weren’t open when I woke up, this was an hour after I “wanted” to wake, but if it has to get done firstit will get done and you’ll make sure of itthen I went to make breakfast snowand had to share the kitchen with…
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I step back and look at the shards of me, the slow motion explosion of dismembered parts of me. Teeth. Tongue. Hair. Kaboom. My torso begins to paint in the nude, I know I’m there and coming soonmy symphony is cacophonous, lewd:arms float off when I begin to conductand the slapping of flesh sounds like…
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Do you remember how to teach? Good, the students are waiting.Other people are thinking like you. They’ve borrowed their way of speaking from someone else, too. These wordsare their words. Apostrophe, possessive of myself,I bargain and feel free. I met a man who made me think I alone was one;became headless dame and lost the…
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I walked into confession and there, waiting for me: the marquis.The bulb blew out as I leaned forward to taste my anagram, I’m in search of a back bone today.(So much for finding the muse downtown, I left my umbrella at home under my couch. I came here to paint what I see or how…
the case for human error 