Persona Poems

Petrarch Looks for Laura at Holiday World

Rattle / May 8, 2019

High noon and ninety-nine in Santa Claus, Indiana. Before I start to melt, I spot some sorry bastard sweating off […]

Rattle / May 6, 2019

Ever since my doctor stopped filling my 40s sometimes brah I just pace around this house. Sometimes I gotta let

Rattle / May 3, 2019

b 1943: adolescent partner of accomplice Charles Starkweather. Together they killed 10 during a six-day spree in Nebraska, 1958. Starkweather

Rattle / May 1, 2019

his voice dark urgency, like when we were attached. I let him grip my hips, slow dance me back

Rattle / April 29, 2019

You draw out long notes across my strings— what matters most could make me weep— ignoring almost everything, the long

Rattle / April 26, 2019

The Blue Whale suicide game is believed to be a social media group, which is encouraging people to kill themselves.