Bags eat away at the steadfast beliefs held by human beings regarding usefulness. Through this very effective tactic, they determine their multiplication and survival.
"ANATOMY OF GATI'S VANITY" and "EXCERPTS FROM SEPTEMBER’S PSYCHOSOMATIC EFFECTS ON ARAB AM. GIRLS"
"Nesting" and "The Buzz"
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
“Frog and Toad are Friends” and “N-Body Setup”
dearest toad,
when the pelicans launched into orbit, I looked at you sideways, circling and circling, the motion of the birds described by some differential equation.
your friend,
frog
“Lettow-Vorbeck and His Uncatchable Lizard” and “The Location We Look For”
But after seeing the bone-lean bodies trailed behind
your soldiers’ growling stomachs, the unearthing
of your uncatchable lizard would have offered you
a sight recognizable though rewritten in rock
six miles southeast of rupaul’s mansion (extracted from Morgan Thomas’s “Surrogate”)
wither your athletes/
dissolve your girls/
forget the toxic flesh
I TRY TO WRITE THE DEAD BLUE WHALE, PARTIALLY BURIED IN THE SAND OF TIBURÓN
From its jaw, Héctor peels a sample of skin. Cuts baleen from its mouth. My body is in waves. The urge to turn from this great unspooling overtakes me.
All the Parts of Things
Another dermatologist, his voice a baritone of confidence, a foghorn, a steady hand, said, “We will be sure to treat this very aggressively. Because it’s the worst thing that can happen to a pretty young woman, her hair falling out.”
I stared at him for a beat too long, my thin brown hair knotting like brows.
“Well, you know,” he grinned and a hand fluttered in front of his face, a butterfly of bashfulness. “One of the worst things.”
