Have Coffin, Need Pallbearers
I’m celebrating my 48th. No birthday paraphernalia in the house, so I’ll blow out a mourner’s candle stuck in a […]
Audio, Mental Illness, Poems, Tributes
Tributes
Audio, Mental Illness, Poems, Tributes
What Gets Us Out of Bed in the Morning
I met a man Thursday whose brain once kept moving at high speed after his skull had come to an
Audio, Mental Illness, Poems, Tributes
Color Study While Withdrawing
The new couch is gray. Or it’s a color called, in the inflated language of glossy ads, puffed musk. Which,
Mental Illness, Poems, Tributes
Kootenai Cradleboard
after Eileen Myles, while visiting the National Museum of the American Indian You flowered like a salmon moves against sharp
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Heirloom
Finally it’s middle night, the town’s asleep and I can watch my breath hit the porch with no fear of
Audio, Mental Illness, Poems, Tributes
A Different Animal
1 Early in the morning, I ghosted into the white tile bathroom, stripped— even my jewelry— drove myself