“It would be better if you were dead”, I hear my mother say As we sit in a corner booth at the local Olive Garden   The waiter – he is...

A goddamn medical procedure   I see the nurses are wearing powder blue scrubs and yellow facial coverings – gloves – they are wearing...

So, I tell him I have artificial teeth and wait for his reply – Hoping he’ll reveal the truth of a peg leg beneath the fabric of his...

She asks me – politely – to stop pissing in the kitchen sink and I ask if she’d like to rail some of the powder I got in my bag - She...

My friend, you were my home You were the stable steel-supported walls that surrounded me You were the floorboards and the concrete...

Today Ned died – Ned was a goat He lived at the Animal Sanctuary about an hour from here … An 8-year resident with numerous health...

So, I am being fitted for my first fancy suit at the fancy store for men – and the polite man with the measuring tape asks me how I...

We lay in each other’s arms – or, rather – my human arms weave through his perfect doggy legs, tenderly as we rest - After a run and...

My Fancy Tie is Light Blue The Band on My Wristwatch is Metallic Yellow The Face of the Clock on the Wall is White The Frame Around the...

I wake to darkness – before the sun caresses the lowlands with its gentle and virginal light - Before the slumbering earth and air are...