December 2023

What kind of juke do you prefer?
For me, it’s the kind with three
songs and thirty-seven blank
title strips. Three songs, and two
are “Luckenbach, Texas.”
The third is beautiful and arcane,
but the patrons hate it,
and the record skips.
I prefer the three-song juke
and the...

In the south we gather like thunderheads: urgent & heavy: make friends in every room: blue jeans stain on the walls: I kiss many lovers & not lovers: thumb blackberries from the ravine into our purpled mouths: at night I...

A fragment. To be followed by an infinitive phrase.
Your hipster cynical voice. One. Then two. Then three words.
In sequence. Subject without predicate. Running to passion
(Predicate without subject). The obligatory foreign phrase
And obscure allusion. The Sprachspiele pregnant
With mandrakes. And these interstices!...