The Spider in the Funeral Parlor
The spider does not recognize the woman as human as it crawls across her stiff, starched collar en route
Donut Shop
In the dream you’re an off-duty cop at a counter holding up a cruller as the waitress pours your coffee.
My Date with Red Shorts
1989 Unlock your body’s potential the voiceover tells you to look at the sculpted man arched across the Soloflex bench,
Mother’s Day
1 I remind my daughter to make her mother a card for Mother’s Day. Something nice, I say, make it
My Brother
A giant bed. A giant man, lying. A plate on his chest. Life to be devoured. Record player bumping across
Judge rules bees are fish
The California Supreme Court left in place a lower-court decision holding that bees are fish—at least for the purpose of
Plastic Vision
For seven years of my childhood, age three until fifth grade, it has been scientifically confirmed that I had a
Remembering Charles
My brother Charles comes to me in a recurring dream. Adult me enters the infirmary through a window and like
Egg and Expectation
The carton is where old poem fragments go
lines and rhymes lacking aplomb now paper pulp
formed into function and
How To Feel Better About Your Death
So…what do you remember about being in the womb before you were born? Do you remember the fluid? The umbilical
Interview with CL Bledsoe
MLR: Greetings, Cort. Thanks so much for chatting with me. This interview is “asynchronous,” as it were, but this is
Independence Day
I met Christine on my flight back from Berlin while helping her restrain an unruly passenger. In her crisp flight
Autumn Saudade
Weight on my chest — afternoons empty of light. Sullen processions clog this street of days. Even my pen refuses