*** Lucas Peel spends his time telling everyone who will listen about his ongoing battle with lactose intolerance. He was born in the year of the banana and likes thinking about the sounds dinosaurs […]
Category: poetry
THE JOURNEYMAN
No one really knows where to begin — the story, the song, the first kiss. But like taking a walk, you just start where you’re standing. One hand, you lay your cards on the table. […]
The Mustard Queen
Spells of courtship, selection, fertilization
by Tomato Man,
slowly learning bittersweet sensations
of thickening.
Two Poems
Human Term(s) hu·man /ˈ(h)yo͞omən/ adjective relating to or characteristic of people or human beings. “the human body” fake, unreal, imagined, malleable, pathetic, skin sack someone is inside of us “don’t kid yourself—you’re vile” “like the […]
A rose
A face, the pearl in the centre of a pendant
glowing to you, a sacred thing,
to keep me safely at your chain.
Einstein Visits the Piggly Wiggly
There was the time Einstein visited the Piggly Wiggly. Alfred has it recorded in a photograph. The photograph is really of a later time, that afternoon perhaps, after the Piggly Wiggly, when Einstein was standing […]
Paradise My Ass
Dig your bible story babies: Adam and Eve Yahweh’s hobby-serfs made ignorant put to work as gardeners they’d still be there except a wily serpent set them straight on how things worked […]
The Affair
There were no condoms or do not disturb signs – we clung to the moment
And I yearned to be the other woman.
Rejection Letters 