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i-40 between needles and kingman

i entered this desert | with you | a voyeur | as a cool morning in june | tapered toward midday | when we found a wide spot | for a piss Continue reading
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ars ratio : ars poetica

too much talk | of tomorrow is sunday’s | chemical piss-sunrise | on an allnighter | running dead east | into monday morning and | my boys need something more | like hope I real- | ize this is a hope-poem | Continue reading
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Dragonfly

Wondered if they buried you in those clothes you borrowed from Shaggy’s closet. You never returned them. Continue reading
America, beer, bees, bird, birds, bummer, canyon, cars, coffee, cook, death, desert, desperate, desperation, discomfort, drink, drugs, drugs and alcohol, drunk, ease, fallout, food, furniture, gender, happiness, hiking, home, hope, humans, jail, kicked out, kids, lessons, love, lovers, lust, man, marriage, men, messy, naked, nature, nude, object, one night stand, our time, our town, peace, people, poem, Poems, poet, poetry, poets, power, punk, punk rock, Review, sadness, scorpions, secrets, sex, shit, small towns, spiders, suicide, symbols, the west, time, truth, voyeur, vulnerability, vulnerable, war, work, workers, working, writing -
If you asked me about Mark Laba
perspective is a drug, and one should change suppliers as often as possible Continue reading
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If You Asked Me About Michael E. Casteels
The chosen language and cadence of the work hefts off the usual pomp of poetry, without leaving any of the poetics behind. Continue reading
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If You Asked me About Emilia Philips
In the cage match between Alice Notley and Carolyn Kizer, Emilia Philips is the referee. Continue reading
About Me
A poet-chef living in Denver, Co. I use the orange Aquafresh toothpaste, off brand mouthwash, and those little floss picks.
