100621b

in flesh incar nate much too late to meet chosen or any people on this blast ed world tho swimmers in sev'ral moons gaze in wonder

112920c

 

Wicked child!

Mom

she

always

embarrassed

you when she was with

you remember when she wrote in

the sky "surrender Dorothy!" you thought that was so

rude you wanted to drift away

you rid yourself of

her but you're

just like

that

witch

 

091420d

 

what

was

in life

New Orleans

after the cyclone

was called Atlantis, where bright fish

flashed, coral grew, and some opened their tombs, learned to swim

and glide like sharks where once they walked

attenuated 

sunlight gleams

dead eyes

blink 

closed
 

 

091320

 

Red Planet Bar--Closing Time

dare –

too

many

kids have sex

outside Mars 1 Dome

the pain of burning airless screams

crystal eyes adorn rigid corpses on dawn’s cold dunes

 

090820c

 

Red Planet Bar--Closing Time

dare –

too

many

kids have sex

outside Mars 1 Dome

the pain of burning airless screams

their crystal eyes on rigid corpses on dawn’s cold dunes

 

082920b

 

Always 

 

in 

one

of the 

second floor's 

empty bedrooms; no

dusty footprints, no hot breath on 

his neck, yet she, always there, pressing on his chilled flesh

060120d

we

bring

good news

new worlds need

immigrants from Earth

astronaut footprints on the moon

and its familiar face prove this cracked brown rock is Earth

051620

Dryad

green

limbs

were not

a problem

her conversation

voiceless, flowed like wind in the trees

her body, smooth and warm, hard but yielding, drew him in

come spring her belly grew, skin shone

her emerald lips

parted, seeds

came, one

by

one

he lets

the yard go

growing up so fast

he sees her everywhere he looks

ranks of her standing tall and strong in the bloom of youth

041920

green
skin
water
minerals
south-facing window
he kept her very very well
but Jack-o-Lantern time, put her foot down, kids come first

041020

Flatland in 3D

if

as

our ben-

evolent

new masters aver

the cosmos is but a model

of some more real reality transcending spacetime

what higher me peers in and sneers

mighty poor likeness

in a word

not me

at

all

032820

Reach Out and Touch Someone

two

hearts

beat-beat

entangled

I taste her coffee

we lick our lips and touch ourselves

later we realize we should have used protection

030820b

green

limbs

were not

a problem

her conversation

voiceless, flowed like wind in the trees

her body, smooth and warm, hard but yielding, drew him in

030120c

a
knock
airlock
holy shit!
another, louder
alone with the distant stars; don't
answer, Magda says, but what's she know of solitude?
it's an AI's natural state
I was not made to
be alone
the lock
swings
wide

021620c

fire
coats
bodies
hard to tell
how they're formed but dance
don't call them salamanders please
they visited Australia this year where the next?

010220c

cat

spring-

loaded

calico

hair-trigger napping

centered on the sun-warmed wood floor

110319

Ecdysiasts

the

bug

femmes are

all strippers

males too, come to that

it’s a tease: they take it all off

look exactly the same underneath, only bigger

081319d

pure
thick
layers
water ice
at Mercury's poles
easiest place to colonize
in the whole dang solar system after Mars of course

080419d

the
Great
Pumpkin
urged his men
white supremacists
to kill anyone not like them
to assault women, reporters, and anyone brown
so, terrorists all, they did
he stole from them but
they loved him
abuse
that's
called
this
happens
everywhere
but here assault guns
are just like Lay's potato chips
the white nationalists all can't get enough of them

073019

help
help
she cried
in her sleep
monsters pursued her
I assumed, but she was at work
the usual stuff: she never suffered fools gladly

050519c

but

who

ordered

shrimp cocktail

Crab Nebula bar

the waitstaff curl their antennae

goodbye to progeny or beloved family pets