Prunes (Xie)

One self prunes violently
at all the others
thinking she's the gardener.

Jenny Xie, from "Tending"

Amazing (George)

It's amazing how unimpressed people are by being loved when it doesn't fit in with their plans.

Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

Rat's Ass Review

My poems "Discontinuity" and "In Ruins" have been published in the Winter 2018 Issue of Rat's Ass Review. Check them—and the other poems in the issue—out!

Resurrection

Resurrection is not rescue.

Position

Position is poison.

For granted

What we take for granted is taking things for granted.

Our daily bread

Respect is the appetizer; fear, the meal;
disdain is dessert.

Escaping the tyranny (Harkaway)

At the same time, an increasingly ontological science tells us that the world we see is no more real than the ones we imagine: the universe is not what it appears to be at our clumsy macro-Newtonian level. Are we simulations? What does that question even mean? How is an informational model of a quantum world different from a quantum world made of information? As government takes steps to control the inside of our heads, freedom reaches to a future where even physical reality is not legislated; where what is written in stone is no more fixed than dreams or water. To escape a fascism that has become internal, we embrace an external world that is ultimately fluid and where the tyranny of the real itself is moot.

Nick Harkaway, Gnomon

Cherry rhubarb crepes

A poem

A poem doesn't have to tell a narrative to be a story.