I moved from Memphis to Knoxville and started working at a clinic, taking blood, much as I had before, except I liked this job better, because for whatever reason, this clinic had younger patients and […]
Dinner With Joe
When smoke fills the room is when I see things clear: It will only ever be me and this amorphous dog prowling around what used to be my dad’s farm. The flames coal at dusk. […]
happy birthday
my brother and I witnessed a funeral of families breaking apart we gather dirt under our fingernails ten black half moons trying to bury it all I cannot look at the motherland she will be […]
poem
this is how i title untitled poems or how do we begin the sermon of a boy tracing out sanity on the bodyof a dew-laden windscreen? another time, he’s found listening to the music of […]
Rejection Letter: Jesse Hilson
Dear Post-Orgasmic Neurasthenia, It was such an interesting feature to have you accompany me through my teenage years, I suppose, but you have overstayed your welcome which leads me to say we really can’t afford […]
Vertigo, Or a Swarming of Ghosts
Whenever I stare down a flight of stairs, I feel closest to death. When I was five, I almost tumbled downstairs. Death would have been easiest then, but my balance worked out that day; my […]
Rejection Letter: Mike Hickman
Dear _______ Forgive me (you won’t forgive me), but I don’t know the best form of address for you. It was never right and you hated it, I know, when it changed, when it became […]
Grocery List
“Linger” – The Cranberries Lately, you run errands, anything to get out of the house. You are wandering through the supermarket. The lights are too bright. The wheel on the cart wobbles, turns and skids […]
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