“Man hollowed out wooden leg to smuggle iguanas” I would have got away with it but for the noise – claws scratching at the wood, those genteel coughing sounds iguanas make. “One...

      Your Last Breath Was Our Forgiveness We didn’t speak for years — your words always hurt. Nine days after my other grandma died, I awoke from a vision of myself sitting at your...

      If I Commit Something Stupid In My Dream You become the hundredth sheep stuck at the rugged fence painted white on my melancholic nights. I confessed my feelings for someone...

       The Empty City No city, just rubble. Solders in black play hide-and-seek, We are East, West, North, South, they shout. So we packed him away, our precious boy, our precious...

      The Incident at Sade’s “Shall we go to Sade’s?” We always went to Sade’s on a Friday at teatime.  And Bob always asked.  Tony always groaned.  The three of us were from the same...

  The Faithful Clad in starched and shiny best, once-a-week worshippers snake towards the tower, drawn by its glingle-glongle call. Their line is punctuated by static carriages, where, slumped...

      Paper Man At first, paper man, I admired your cutting edge, Your inability to be anything more than See-through. I noticed you Folding in certain situations. I thought it was...

    Bourbon Street Black as the Blues, too hot to sweat, a man steps through a melt of light, wears black, a hat, a caution of brogues set up by a pair of Sammy Davis shades. Back-to-back...

      Comfrey The first result was controversial so said the search engine, I think in a baritone voice. Then growing tips: 1. In someone’s shadow 2. Wetness needed (I think the...