To be led by the engine of empire...

A two week notice.

The streets are empty. The bars are less full. 

In 1644 John Weston, age thirteen or sixteen, depending on the source, stowed away.

On the road ... 

Fill the latex body all the way through.

Twice, my friend was flashed as a child.

For you who shone under the blue lights

Strike up a conversation with other cars you meet

Her guardian came from glory.

The river, the river, the river. 

sentences are donuts bursting with believability custard

How grand it would be if Jedi Temples were Papaya Monuments.

That place where mystery pukes

The Great Swedish Store

i want to be made into french fries

Many dust the dream, wait the time.
How important is motion?

getting a haircut in the year’s first month will cause the death
of an uncle eating fish will bring your family abundance
八 meaning eight sounds the same as 發 meaning wealth
& also hair eight

from
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO X

Prayer is what you do when you don’t know whether your animal will live through the night. Pink like Pepto-Bismol staining a goat’s chin. Everything lives and

how to wear a crop top to office depot

trying not to think of you

when i connect with someone

i start to fear rejection

because that’s what

i’m used to

not being famous

feels

Because there’s a god for the water on your skin
when you’ve come from the lake. One for the absence
of flowers in a vase, for every pump and filter organ inside my dog

One god isn’t enough to

Heavy Metal Love Song

Street drafts off the two-tone carpet in my underworld            

Air so much wetter than the memory of it        sharpness of weather
spoiling for more life

Two buses

No Vision

Two teenagers set my state on fire
with a bottle rocket. We flee
between coasts like politics.
I work three jobs so I can buy
new brakes & a tattoo of a heart
shooting lightning.

There’s an elderly couple camped out in the parking lot of an abandoned Bennigan’s.

Full-sized, luxury RV, Weber grill, folding chairs, red Coleman cooler.

These folks have options, and yet they

BEFORE LIFT OFF

Before the plane’s wheels begin spooling air
in an act of contrition 

as if to say                   this place, it’s fine,
                                    but the next—you