recent poetry at western pines

My eaves will always hold more memories of metastasis than you. Smooth running hair, I don’t want it anymore. I want to dig out this shrapnel with a comb, black holes spun beneath a scalp in sugar. The scant broth of prairies and salt, screen door vomit wiped clear. Cell phones shouldn’t return calls after […]

We won’t cold brew malaise. I melted a safety cone and caulked the quadruple pane. Coupons are falling! Dishes don’t wash themselves. I kept reminding the pilots to not slap at the dog when he began to squirm and bark. Don’t let the dog use your inhaler as a chew toy. Inhalers belong in shirt […]

While I was driving past the demolition of the Heidelberg Brewey today I noticed something written on the wall. http://blog.thenewstribune.com/business/2011/01/12/heidelberg-brewery-complex-slated-for-demolition/ [Update, 12/18/11: The wall and this art piece no longer exist.]

starliner buried underground near darker dermis, ivory headpiece ashtray on the dashboard toy strata, solemn strata, lower dismal strata found refracted eviction roofing theropoda lifelike inside red flyer wagon, encased fossil furcula at an angle, glass case gelatin turn microscopic. sample the windows of the bus record etched channels where clothing seams imprinted measure indented clay where resting used to […]

Three types of water fowl were found in the fireplace this morning. Their necks slipped from our numb palms buttered with soap. –Get empty cereal boxes to corral them on the hearth. Wash them. Three types of birds come back from the printer. Feathers prefer woodcuts or calligraphy. Our black hole likes to attract hippocampus and altercation. A sedan’s interior spackled with […]

we flew up into the trees to tie knots in collected red wires we flew back down to where we were born in a green ammo can from the army surplus store we returned again to the swap meet where Vietnam vets peddling circuit boards have been replaced by immigrants we flew into a downspout the television cable is […]

printed over a dollar’s hieroglyphs. printed on our molars, on our enamel. printed on credits from Ursa Minor, on our hang nails, our rooted crowns. who’s there? recorded anonymous on debit card mag stripes. printed on one knuckle of a zoo’s prized nobility: skin cells of the swimming lake latitude misery dew point; wipe your upper lip on a plaid work […]

nursery arrhythmia, kitchen shivers protect hemoglobin from live wires ancient salt cakes the embryo the necrophiliac next door prefers white bread able mistletoe, a compass traces the arc of spasms pet tarantulas bed in moss lip wounds split open costume cherubims, cracked telescope cell walls lichens, rites of waxen attics temples all day. smile as […]

someone decided we would have the abortion you laid on a table before me like i would deliver them they induced labor and were ready with instruments: with a metal cutting device and a vacuum the orderlies positioned themselves at your sides like i was the audience each baby emerged and i looked close i could see […]

“This semi-scientific approach yields an estimate of about 106 billion births since the dawn of the human race. Clearly, the period 8000 B.C. to 1 A.D. is key to the magnitude of our number, but, unfortunately, little is known about that era. Some readers may disagree with some aspects— or perhaps nearly all aspects—of the […]