12 Poems Of Joy – XII
XIIThere is a kind and like-minded thing that lies beside you while you sleep.---read all 12 Poems Of Joy
12 Poems Of Joy – XI
XIHow many times does a woman laughIn a day?The survey I readSaid twenty.How do they knowWhere one laugh ends,The next begins?Can the animals be taught to laugh?Can machines be?Or what…
12 Poems Of Joy – X
XI was so afraid -yes, more afraidthan I have everever ever ever everever ever ever everever ever ever everever ever beenbefore, ever.Or am I being melodramatic again?---read all 12 Poems…
12 Poems Of Joy – IX
IXVan Helsing unfastened the coffin lid,peeled the crucifix from the bone-white brow.He pulled the garlic from the rust-flecked mouth,careful not to touch the teeth.He stitched back on the severed head,and…
12 Poems Of Joy – VIII
VIIIShe looked at the floor and wall and was uncomfortable,and I did not smile.I did not say her name.She told me her family secret,and I made a joke of it,and…
12 Poems Of Joy – VII
VII"Look, we're moving to Europe. To London, actually. That's where my wife's from. I hear it's great over there. People keep telling me I'll love it. I think it's really…
12 Poems Of Joy – VI
VI Dandelion, understanding, stands and stretches into the hot air and cheerfully, happily, is annhiliated, asundered, drawn to Heaven. ---
12 Poems Of Joy – V
VI have killed.I'm sure to do it again.I was breast-fed till I was 18.It's my mother's fault.I replay vividly my grandmother's death.Each morning. It rouses me.In my quiet room, I…
12 Poems Of Joy – IV
IV I note a lump inside me, in my body - in the thorax, in fact - in my chest - just shy of the sixth rib. It throbs. It…
12 Poems Of Joy – III
IIIDaedalus - with only one wing done -fled before a mobdetermined to string him upand piñata the hell out of the man.Running for his life,he donned the single wing and,triple-jumping…