Criminal The sky has the greenish pallor of tarnished silver. I can feel in my joints it’s going to snow. I’m what you wouldn’t want to be – an old, achy, white male, a hated artifact of patriarchy. How others see us affects how we come to see ourselves. Just a week before his suicide, … FOUR PROSE POEMS

i’m an island of trash.my friends call me trash island.they throw charity dinners to rid the world of me.how many nonprofits does it take before you get the joke?the punchline:my friends are here to kill me.the liberals are out to get me.my republican comrades won’t admit i exist.my island family having been rescued from me … “NO MAN IS AN ISLAND, BUT THEN I’M NOT A MAN”

The living God hangs above us,thrashing wailing against her copper wire restraints.Sunburned saints bleeding into her gapless mouthripped bloody torn by endless gusts.Cyan paints scouth and sapless holocentrus eyesturned towards Bethlehem! Cry out now Rāḥēl in crypt with horn in hand!Down to Dallas headless national guards marchclothed in sinner’s braun guise,those crushed swarming flies tearingfilahelm … “STRANGERS IN SUNSET PLACES”

growing up in farm countrylower mid-michiganlyme diseasewas talkedabout on tvor newspapersas a naturaltho unfortunate conditionpassed on naturallyfrom ticksany + all tickstook decadesto find out Lyme, Connecticutwas a small townacross the water from Plum Islandfederal bioweapons labrun by one of the nazisinvited over after WWIIby the ciawho thought ticks werethe best way to infectan enemy populationlike … “LYME IDEOLOGY”

“Dog bites child—child arrested.”A blurb below the fold said.Query: will he be okay?What trauma was done that day? A dog that’s bit is never the same,Nightmares of screams always remain.Bitter flesh between his teeth,Could ruin his food for weeks. Women reading the article mutter,“Kids these days, why do we bother?Education and Ritalin, yet they run … “ANIMAL CONTROL”