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The Ice Pick That is Made of Ice

The Ice Pick That is Made of Ice

He knows as well as you or I that most ice picks (as these implements are known) have a handle which is made of wood but can also be made from plastic or rubber, and attached to this handle there is usually a pointy steel bar...

after we watched how the grinch stole christmas and you still didn’t bother to text me back

after we watched how the grinch stole christmas and you still didn’t bother to text me back

i want to break my bones / in snow boots.

The Years Without a Santa Claus

The Years Without a Santa Claus

a decaying sestina, after Lawrence Schimel

when i think of jason bourne i think of christmas

when i think of jason bourne i think of christmas

After Elizabeth J. Wenger’s “when i think of quentin tarantino i think of revenge”

Sestina Written on the Way Home for Christmas

Sestina Written on the Way Home for Christmas

look: i just know / the exact ache in my ribs as Colin Firth eyes his lover across the plains / of France and the pain

Strangers

Strangers

Sexual. Spatial. Temporal. I want to be anywhere, / anytime but this conversation. What did she think then?

Crimes We Commit in the Future

Crimes We Commit in the Future

Privately, we worried. There’s no way to be sure what we would do, how far we could be pushed. It made us question ourselves, examine what desperation could make us do.