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Three Poems

Salt provokes, tenderizes. Your wounds, your dinner.

Three Poems

Nothing likes to be abandoned, no one likes to be compared.

Three Poems

My lust works like the tides pulling in reverse, controlled by a simple ballast.

Three Poems

Think how you move, how a room changes with your smallest breath.

Three Poems

I wanted my love to be everywhere, then love began to bite through me.

Three Prayers

But we do despise beauty. We connect it with softness and immortality.

Three Short Pieces

All right. We are perfect. Tomorrow we will make a million dollars.

Three Stages of Amazement

Charlie wasn’t Lena’s first love, but he counted on being her last.

Ticket to Ride

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Tina Turner and My Father

Ike’s voice left behind on the shore as Tina plunges in again.

Tinfoil Butterfly

I found Lowell’s gun a long time ago. He’s not a genius at hiding things.

Titan

My own hunger was for a reduction in the vast space between people.

Titan

My own hunger was for a reduction in the vast space between people.

To Hart Crane

Now he chuckles with the sea, stitched within its timeless jive.

To My Seventeen-Year-Old Self

Your friends are sniffing glue from a paper bag in the back of an Impala.

To Reach Japan

Writing to you is like putting a note in a bottle, hoping it will reach Japan.

To the Dirt Which in Time Will Consume Us All

I love scientists. They’re trying their hardest. And they just want love.

To This God I Will Say

He has his hands on Nii’s throat, and this time I do not stop them.

Toastmaster

The laughter rises like the roar of a train as the men leap to their feet.

Toggling the Switch

When she gets to Lenny’s he offers her a beer and a bong hit...

Toleration

I am visited daily by unrelenting spirits evoking my accumulated flaws.

Tom Jenks on Editing The Garden of Eden

Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden was edited by Tom Jenks.

Totality

The strange man expected to be picked up by aliens during the eclipse.

Transfer Station

Definitely believe what you hear about the problems with painkillers.

Trapline

The first murder had been a half dozen years ago in a warmer city.

Treasure Island

Exit the building. Say nothing to anyone. They did. And they didn’t.

Treasure Island: The Black Spot

There lay before us a bag that gave forth, at a touch, the jingle of gold.

Triage

A dead body leaned sideways against a wall. Its eyes were open.

Triptych

One of us broke away, cooled, and died, having never fully lived.

True Believers

Buster’s reasons for looking after Marco weren’t entirely altruistic.