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The Ambitious Guest

“I have always had a gift of feeling what is in other people’s hearts.”

The Aphorisms of Henry Adams

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

The Apocalypse Has Happened

Everyone is talking about the end of the world. Why now? Why today?

The Arrest

No one answered. I turned to his parents. My stomach felt on fire.

The Arrogant Man

He grew a forest of candles and cried when it succumbed to wildfire.

The Audition

That day he stood on some threshold and paused and wept at his choice.

The Bathroom Wall Says: Women

It comes as no surprise that everything is flying toward one point.

The Beginnings of a Storm

It’s a mistake to be here, he thinks, but he doesn’t turn around.

The Big Trip Up Yonder

Gramps’ will was a fifty-year diary, all jammed onto two sheets.

The Black Cat

The Black Hole

When I meet his gaze, he’s frowning, a hint of anger flashing in his eyes. When saw the fury in his eyes, I thought he was going to kill him.

The Blessing

We were hurtling close to a hundred miles an hour through the dark.

The Blinding

This poem weaves human and earthly hurt together in just a few short lines.

The Blue Hotel

“I suppose there have been a good many men killed in this room.”

The Bone Trees

The trees were a sign from the devil, a warning of the terror to come.

The Bridge

“Look down,” I said, comb in hand. “Let me check behind your ears.”

The Brother

He held a screwdriver to the fleshy underside of Peggy’s neck.

The Car That Loved Water

He was staring at his car like you might a stare at a dog.

The Caterer

This is not America! It is not the America I grew up in, it’s
a joke.

The Chief Inspector’s Daughter

I am drawn to these victims because I was there the night they were killed.

The Child-Who-Was-Tired

The Children and Other Poems

Some women have all the tit out hip out flat of the hand & tone of voice.

The Church of Abundant Life

“Ki-Tae the famous pastor,” Jae says to her. “Can you believe life.”

The Comfort Zone

It was as if my dead husband was flowing within me now, like blood.

The Complaint

Our remarks must be tempered by a sense of cooperation.

The Complicated Coast

Don’t tell him you’re a virgin, says Peggy. You’ll freak him out.

The Crazing of the Lagniappe

A gift tells you who you are and what you’re not in the eyes of others.

The Curse of the Starving Class

Ambition and coincidence had led me to the Royal Theatre.

The Cutter

He’s got a nice, deep kind of voice. He doesn’t sound redneck at all.

The Damn Pin Cracked

His mind was a glass vase shat-
tered into pieces across the floor.