People You Know By Heart

  —REMEMBER WHAT THE DORMOUSE SAID   … You have it  but you don’t have it. You miss it, it misses you.  You miss each other. This poem is sa...

          Charlie   While the sun was shining everywhere, my brother died yesterday.  No music played—sad, soaring, symphonic or otherwise. ...

—I’M SHAKING, BUT ONLY INSIDE     It feels like a death threat come to fruition when you wake up on the apartment floor, not for the first t...

—PUB DAY   Marriage, childbirth, puppies… Those are the few things I can think of which are better than having a new book out.   If you had ...

  —LOVE ME TWO TIMES     Gigolo   You sit ogling the bottle  as if it is your dead father  a tombstone priest professor  Jesus or a naked wo...

  —I HAVE TO STOP THINKING SO LOUD     …Dear Jesus,      At some point, you need to show up. And by “some point,” I mean right now.     We’r...

  —IT’S OKAY IF YOU DON’T HAVE IT ALL FIGURED OUT       Junk   All the answers are rotting under the stairwell. Syringes and pluck. Stray te...