Parking Meter
If a slot machine is a one-armed bandit,
what does that make you? A cyclopean
troll? I don’t think it will catch on.
Audio
Go Home Boy Go Home
It’s in the story of an inmate whose dog
shows up at the prison and lies at the double
line of fences.
Of California, the Wild
Image: “Night Train” by Gerrie Paino. “Of California, the Wild” was written by Breonne Stiglitz for Rattle’s Ekphrastic Challenge, April 2024, and selected as the Editor’s Choice.
Bottomlands Dream
The boy fell from the Monahegnee Bridge,
and his parents buried him, and the years
were a cottonmouth swimming in an oxbow
lake, and the boy became an owl as he fell
The Breaks
I’ve a friend who says, “Treat anything mechanical
as if it’s just about to break.”
Ode to the Cop Next to the One with the Pepper Spray
Your cheek turns, Christ-like
from your buddy with the buddha
belly blowing chemicals
on crowds of my students.