Poetry
Cat
I’ve been sleeping on the couch for hours with the cat now I have to get up to go get the mail and become…
Clock Radio 2020
Clock Radio 2020
Poetry
Two Poems
Uphill If asked what the most beautiful sight on earth is I’d probably say that it’s the feeling of a blanket half covering bare…
Poetry
Rick
was this old friend of mine who gave me my first and only award for poetry. it was near 3 in the morning and…
Poetry
What One Gives Up
My heart has grown docile, less inclined to thrash about and strain at the leash. Maybe that’s the way it goes: we come into…
Poetry
Ghost Light
This is no ordinary dark. In my day it took heavy machinery to drill through it: ellipsoidal spotlights when Fresnel bits broke, and mixing-bowl-shaped…
Poetry
insecstasy
they mess with your head she said these tiny little fruit flies i couldn’t argue we were well into the second bottle of good…
Interviews
Easing the Monsters: An Interview with Charles Bukowski
Bukowski on poetry, craft, the 9-to-5, and “easing the monsters,” among other topics. Dougherty: In your poems, you sometimes write about enjoying your time at…
Work
RUBY
He lived with a pigeon, his entire apartment was covered in bird-shit, he dealt good hash, but it was a horror, no surface was…
Poetry
I’ll get you into a multimillionaire’s pool party
Roger said he could get me into a multimillionaire’s pool party with Jimmy Buffet playing alcohol and paradise but I don’t want to go…