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You know why he does it, because it’s either a wall, a window, or someone’s face.

I am holding this for you: cento

I am holding this for you: cento

A wristwatch on a person's arm.

The Pendulum Swings for No One

mother, your favorite tiki bar-

mother, your favorite tiki bar-

Carlos and the Comedic Comment

Carlos and the Comedic Comment

A ray of light falling over an empty bed.

Unknown Number

Perfect Baby

Perfect Baby

Fiction

A wristwatch on a person's arm.

The Pendulum Swings for No One

Dad says time travelers can’t hurt us.

A ray of light falling over an empty bed.

Unknown Number

A small brown and white pony screaming in a field

A CASE FOR NECROMANCY IN THE QUEST FOR PEACE

A naked baby bird in a nest, the nest built in the bough of a pine tree.

A Wickedness

A sillhoutted bird flying over a sunset.

Waterbird

Square blocks of cereal in milk in a blue bowl against a mustard yellow background.

Grown adult Bill Murray purchased a box of Jojo Siwa Strawberry Bop cereal because

A group of raccoons huddled together against a chain-link fence.

The Myth of Trash Pandas

Flash Fiction

Texas Weather

Texas Weather

You know why he does it, because it’s either a wall, a window, or someone’s face.

Carlos and the Comedic Comment

Carlos and the Comedic Comment

Perfect Baby

Perfect Baby

Premonition

Premonition

At the Book Club Meeting

At the Book Club Meeting

A View of His Chevy

A View of His Chevy

Trichotillomaniac

Trichotillomaniac

Flash Nonfiction

Notes from a Visit to the Motherland, February 2023

Notes from a Visit to the Motherland, February 2023

Every time I’m in town I get a body count.

gender indifferent

gender indifferent

Security Question

Security Question

image retention

image retention

What To Expect At The End Of Your Cat’s Life

What To Expect At The End Of Your Cat’s Life

light the beam

light the beam

A field of pink tulips, two out of focus bicycles standing upright in the background.

Band on the Run

Nonfiction

Leon Lett and the Poetics of Chaos: A Failed Essay on Failure

Leon Lett and the Poetics of Chaos: A Failed Essay on Failure

Chaos generally means a state of utter confusion or disorder.

Ostkreuz

Ostkreuz

Coming Home

Coming Home

A woman standing outside holding her phone with both hands to text with her thumbs. Her face is outside of the frame.

bitch

The black keys of a typewriter partially in frame against a stark white background.

Forfeiture of Nuance in the Rise of AI

A to Z

A to Z

Divorce-o-rama: Divorce as a Dark Ride

Divorce-o-rama: Divorce as a Dark Ride

Poetry

I am holding this for you: cento

I am holding this for you: cento

using lines drawn from Richard Siken, Crush and The War of the Foxes

mother, your favorite tiki bar-

mother, your favorite tiki bar-

Citrus

Citrus

the gyre

the gyre

LINE BREAKS (at GUARDRAILS)

LINE BREAKS (at GUARDRAILS)

The Hopefuls

The Hopefuls

on transition

on transition

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a million gods would kill for this job

Modern Poetry

my father votes in favor of capital punishment

i realized i forgot to say i love you

My Father, the Comedian

Romy Rhoads Ewing is the Last Good Thing About This Part of Town

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the co-op parking lot

two worlds right next door to each other

Morning Walk, 10/19/14

It was always like this:

March 1st, 2023

Jonathan Dubow Wants Your Dovetails

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Two Poems in Conversation

Leon Lett and the Poetics of Chaos: A Failed Essay on Failure

Apophasis

From Merrily We Go A-Wrong: My Philosophical Laundryman

The Alexander Singers & Players present Shmiddler on the Roof

Kathryn Wants Your Domestic Oddities!

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The hinge on the garlic press is loose

Phin as a Resting Ground

Ode to the Mortar

Mixie

Notes from a Spatula

Alex Carrigan Wants Shameless Name-Dropping Literature

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Billy Collins Is Bored with My Dead Mother

either / or

enten / eller

another poem about my ex girlfriend (gggec)

ode to messy emotions

Brittany Says Don't Txt Ur Ex

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Lesbian God Says To Let It Go

Strange Sour

Spill Your Guts

Someone at Waffle House Reminded Me of You

Gavin Garza Will Have His Revenge On Fresno

Nominated for Best of the Net 2025

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POEM IN WHICH I READ TRANS

Death Works at Trader Joe's

Shakespeare’s Cumslut ??

Three Poems on the Angel Gabriel

Is it still Dollar Pizza if it’s a Dollar Fifty?