Anything worth saying can be rendered / as an aphorism, might itself be an aphorism, / just so you know My phrase of the moment / is radiant action...
The new neighbors were moving vans and glimpses behind curtains. In time, they became an electronic fiction behind a white trellis fence. My dog could smell their vacancies.
My boyfriend cut off my arm while I slept. He had thought the whole thing through months in advance, he told me the next morning.
He slides an open palm up and down wallpaper that appears to depict horsemen and battalions in battle. He presses an ear to it. He tilts a framed print of Caravaggio’s Holofernes away from the wall.
George Strait’s in this poem now, he’s meddling
with everything. He’s reading words
with the wrong inflections, making me... more
I turned my head so fast / I mistook the moon / for a firework / and then I wanted // to bark too...
Daniel heard it driving home...
Encore
He got a nice new haircut. His laryngitis was gone. His heart hurt less and the same with his head.... more
You could still hear the sounds of their screams, over the water, as they tipped over the falls.
NOTE: This is the first of four installments in this series. We will be... more
& I am in this seat / doing the yeoman’s work / of relocating, of settling / for Florida’s budburst protocol // when I’d rather be on my back / in Arkansas or Illinois, Alabama...
B.J. Hollars has no problem crossing literary boundaries. In his short... more
When Homer went blind, Langley’s remedy was one hundred oranges a week.
Four teenagers named “Phil” were tired of their dads not being rich.
“It is very frustrating to have a poor dad,” said... more
"As a term, postmodernism came into my vocabulary in 1988. It had not yet moved from art and English and music into theology the way it has in recent years by then, but it was, of course, still extant in the visual codes of culture."
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We hope that you never need use this umbrella. ... more
You’re in a car tunneling in the wake of its own... more
Note: Below is the style sheet for my novel In the House... more
Pingo went first. He always did. The rest of us stood at the top of the slope over the place where the sewer pipes from town... more
Bryan Furuness is a writer whose presence has long loomed large here at Hobart. He’s published work in the... more
All the money is wet & gummy / underneath the brightest pink trees. / They fade to breast cancer color when it rains.
On her bike in the rain, Sally could not shake the bus. The double-decker advanced no more confidently than... more
In an interview with Luna Park in 2009, I was quoted as saying this:
I really do believe in the whole... more
Lou Reed was at our party last night. I think. Couldn’t ID him clearly—with the dark, smoke, and all that constant shifting.... more
The scientist entered the mansion through a secret passage, and the dictator and his staff gave him DNA samples and told him to make... more
The Phillies recently came to Phoenix, the closest pro baseball city to me, for a four-game set on Mother’s... more
Things they never tell you when your husband leaves the planet:
It’ll happen faster in real-life than it does on TV. 10, 9, 8… A... more
In 2010, we published Adam Novy's The Avian Gospels as two volumes, kind of Old and New Testament style.... more
