A Life Well Slept
Dedicated to my old mattress, wherever you are.
JAKE
Bioluminescence
a sudo-Ku
In which the alien from "Alien" plays basketball
in space, no one can hear the net go swish-swish.
Through Some Coincidence
It’s just the rattling of the warm, yellow grass.
Grief
“Made with love by Paula”
GAZE
I come to him every day, every day in a new shirt.
The Would-Be Thief Pauses to Read About Homer’s Iliad
I hear the Famous Poet scoffs at the idea of an after-life that caresses us, preferring to believe in the remote Disneyland of the dead though even he must know that wherever the dead live, they’re not resting in peace.