October 2022

Daddy’s blue-gray Chevy pickup
    bumped along the hard gravel road
        forking deeper into pines & oaks,

& then my boyish eyes ran up to the
    flickering wick of a kerosene lamp
        in the...

 
Agnes only had nine years to live. The angels must have begun to hover around her canvas like monkeys. This canvas has nine white thin strips between the red and blue ones. I’ve spent my life thinking about the blue...

The winds made me crazy.
At King’s Highway diner
I did tarot for the waitress
and she drew a heart on my bill.
Every day I watched a boy
play dead in the pool.
His friends laughed at him
from their beach chairs.
“I won,” he’d yell.
“I beat...