Author name: Rattle

Why I Opted for the More Expensive Oil at Jiffy Lube

Rattle / February 3, 2024

This one is better for a car as old as yours, he says.
It won’t glob up, he says. And spring is almost here,
so of course you need a thicker oil.

Audio, Poems

Haymaking

Rattle / February 2, 2024

The farmstead was tucked away like a child
in sheets of gently rolling Samogitian land:
tufts of deciduous trees, the occasional stand
of pine, long stretches of rape and rye rounded
by the odd dairy cow fertilizing the ground.

Poems

The Fun

Rattle / February 1, 2024

was always where I wasn’t,
in the other room, behind the paisley curtains,
on the bigger Ferris wheel,
out in the backyard while I was washing cups.

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The Raft

Rattle / January 31, 2024

It was no small feat to locate a phone book—but I did,
and Angela Winston from Oshkosh, Wisconsin,
I have chosen your name at random and I have come
to save your life.

Poems, Tributes

Baghdad, Mon Amour

Rattle / January 30, 2024

You cannot be crucified
On the side of a page
Of a story that is not your own,
Nor to the rhythm of the deaths that brood your plagues
Because there will be no cry to relieve your grief.

Audio, Poems

Welcome to My Dating Profile, Please Come Inside

Rattle / January 29, 2024

In this photo of me air kissing a mural
you will find the living room.
Look at those curves and high ceilings.
I do not have a lifelong disease.