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casino lights

tinywords has posted one of my haiku and so has Four and Twenty.

hitch-hike on the tailpipe of a car

Read “Little Ghosts” by Duane Ackerson.
And my chapbook Edgewise is still available for pre-order.

The cat wants the dogs balls. That can’t be right.

My roommate’s cat Can’t Get Right, who suffered a traumatic head injury as a kitten, likes to lie on the washer and look out the windows at the birds and squirrels which grace our backyard. I was out there on Sunday throwing balls for the dog and I heard a thunk behind me as the [...]

poetry as advertisement

ad for the Observer relaunch

SEI seeks TI for mutual orifice/exploration. Object: auto vivisection for/communal pleasure.

Read “Inter-Sentient Personal Ads” by John Nichols.
And my chapbook Edgewise is still available for pre-order.

push wind through the trach

Four and Twenty: Short Form Poetry has just published two of my micropoems (one haiku, one senryu) in their February 2010 issue (pdf).

It was through her body/that I wanted to pass close to the bodies of the boys.

Read “The Most Careless Girl in the Class Had the Most Exquisite Body” by Erica Ehrenberg.

heart humming wild like a bird

but his horse

Read “Epistle to Miss Blount, on Her Leaving the Town, After the Coronation” by that daydreaming irritable slave Alexander Pope.

Who fails to consider the/Flim and flam of the world

Barack Obama’s undergraduate poetry is pretty weird, but not bad, and if nothing else better than Jimmy Carter’s. (via, which includes lots of other poems by heads of state)