Blush I love everybody but most of all it's Miss Hooker, my Sunday School teacher, we're going to get married one day, don't ask me how I know, I guess God told me somehow,...

Derek reads the Daily Mail Derek woke, as he did every day, in an inexpensive guesthouse and to the promise of a long drive. Today – if there were no developments before he left - he was travelling...

      The Stars Shone Just for Me Last night I saw a fox and an owl meet by the plum tree stump at the bottom of the garden. One above, and one below, they sat and looked, each at the...

      Your Impossible Eyes No one’s mapped the sun because the telescope’s too short or the questions lack the depth & the numbers shift the sum. It’s not a closed universe, the...

      The First Page Of My Autobiography Call it thin-- It's a start of something smaller It cannot begin So dances across my wallpaper.       Jason Visconti is a...

Closure there are a dozen doors i never closed. instead, i walked away letting the cool air drift out once solid doors. but with open doors, ghosts follow and at certain angles your shadows fill my...

      Social Control He’d lay about all day if given the chance. On his back, legs kicking the air on occasion. I raise his lead. He lifts his head and cocks it. Doesn’t seem to mind...

      How to bake Sooterkins   Prickle this demon borrowed skin until it peels away no warning the sharp taste of a pill can last for life how the shapeshiftcrawl of knife can ...

      My Request for a Kiss After Dark Yields No Affair so I Leave a Parting Gift in Heavy Rain Standing in front of your door, its weight so blatant, its iron knocker a dare, I purse...

      Raking, in a Pyrenean Garden       There is a quiet gap in the constant sheets of rain. Let’s go out, first you, then I, into the small, soaking green and brown back— the rising...