Baby Boy

cw/tw: drug abuse, suicidal ideation, graphic description of imagined death The last time I walked this far I was a … More

Heart(less)

I kept explaining my heart away. Too heavy to carry, too broken to mend, I dreamt that that mess of … More

Savage

The night before you were killed, I was drinking at the pub where you were tending the bar. After the … More

First Cut: Interview with Stephen J. Golds

The first book in the First Cut Poetry series, Poems for Ghosts in Empty Tenement Windows I Thought I Saw … More

City Triptych

1. Thursday night in the city / 10pm-ish I think / I’m busy / doing nothing / watching / the … More

Blunt Force

You see things and hear things that “aren’t real” [apparently, according to everybody else but it’s all real to you] … More

Lovely

You had three nosebleeds today, allof them highly satisfying, each equallylovely. The free-falling drop of claretthat lands on your newspaperat … More

Cereal for Dinner

Sometimes, when consciousness was simply too painful for our sensitive souls, we would consume enough vodka, valium and zopiclone to … More

Custody Conversations

  Excerpt from History of Present Complaint by HLR (Close to the Bone, 2021). To read more, get a copy … More

Corkboard

Got a corkboard the size of a dining table painted one side of the frame bright yellow the face to … More