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Category Archives: poetry

Exit, Pursued by a Bear

i opened my mouth again & now i can’t stop can’t stop can’t stop saying nothing much of anything scritchity-scratch fit to burst like a volcano like a pig’s trough like a rusted pipe like a rusted pipe i’m just lying in the gutter reaching up for the stars & i stepped on your face […]

figaro & his friends

About 15 years ago, I decided to participate in 24-Hour Comics Day just for a lark. I hadn’t drawn anything more than random doodles in a notebook in over a decade and hadn’t written anything but poetry and prose in 5 years or so. I decided to basically make a comic out of my poetic […]

Drown Time

your cat is dancing in my dreams i want to dance too pirouette & samba foxtrot & moonwalk & you’re beautiful the way you are yes you’re beautiful the way you are i would dare to eat a peach but sweetness is not what i want this time i want to taste the sea & […]

For Hermes Still My Friend

crashing like a constable collide the fire this time escape in scopeĀ in hope escape before a bear before a boar crushed apple like cotton a wire kaleidoscope burned with toast strawberry burned crushed to a crisp toasted mutton spooned on gum fired landscapes all worsted wool pooled into petals before a bear before a bird […]

Eskimo

you walk on the edge of the frozen abyss you threaten to leap into shadows of mist you smile & you say you created the moon i watch your reflection in the back of a spoon you press your face on the glass of the window the chill is enchanted by the glare of the […]

A Fine Romance

torn paper, damp & grey all stormy in the underworld i think of every night wishing washes washed up waffle kissing in the catacombs symphony in blue symphony in blue this mask i wear is ever true & slipshod shafted after all all in all in all in all romance for the little fool wrote […]