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I. I’m parked outside Trader Joe’s so you’re getting my shopping list because I only ever manage to have paper OR pen in the truck; never both at the same time. So here goes: onions, coffee creamer, frozen dumplings, low-acid coffee, Unexpected Cheddar. What am I missing? Did you use firm tofu or extra-firm in…

Gone eight hours, counted Zelma, her watch in one hand and the other on her back. She could wait for Ray no longer. Truth be told, she’d been feeling poorly since yesterday. Now, it was time to go. The hot, round belly rolled her off their rusty trundle bed. She rested on her hands and…

All manner of critters lurk in the Enchanted Valley, bobcats and coyotes, bear and beaver, slugs and hornets, and Ken feels like a lurker too, a confused critter sluggishly wandering-standing in front of the chalet with Maggie, his devoted girlfriend of eight years sitting on a downed tree behind him, dressing the hotspots on her…

Ice Wage   subzero air, and the set was fixed like concrete until I came to chop it loose because of the breakage, how many must have starved that winter,              frozen in low wages, loose whatever you do, never attempt to mix colors on your paper. you may drop,…

I scream and you touch me. I scream, and you touch me. You smudge my glass face with the oiled edge of your thumb, and I whisper what I know about the Australian bushfires. I whisper pictures of protestors circling the US embassy in Iraq, and you gawk at me, drowsily, as if we have…

Firekeeper    at 3  the world burns  alone  I keep cussing  because I keep cussing  off the smallest fracture  of sagebrush  shadow  eyelash.     Spire    A boy struck clouds  the shape of his brother’s mouth  so it’s raining now  varnish  wine  midnight  concrete   sit sit sit  the cloud is a lung  and…

here’s what’s happened since u were last on linkedin  ur dirty sayonara  this lifestyle yanked away from me  ludwig kim jones fav boi he put his fats on it  o’hara considering the muse as demon lover  plath looking into the eyes of demon lover  this jack of hearts  always drinking too much  in the middle…

Dear    When a big cosmic hand Runs along the back of the Pacific Little bits of ocean dust Untethered Jump into the air  Cling to the fuzz on your cashmere sweater Cling to the hair in your nose  The light today was donated to us anonymously Body-cold. Heart unbeatable Spine a chewed on branch …