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P o e m s     &     S t o r i e s




. . . P o e m s
Central Nevada Haiku
RANGE basin highway basin RANGE
Places
She is the beekeeper, she is the mapmaker.
Driving
Desire whips red screaming down a hard street, gets picked up for speeding
Diagram of a girl
Dream of a Dinner Party. See diagram, left.
Male, Female, Accidental
It is tool-based and toy-based; supply-dependent, yet determined to win.
Blue
She drinks images like milk. The process nearly kills her, every time.
Wolf-girl
In seeking the roots of her talents, she figured it was something that happened when she was five.
German Phase
Disdain for the American bourgeoisie floods her countenance. She clutches a wallet photo of a German officer.
Ink
...cans of diced peaches, unwashed feet, the chaconne.
Spider
It whispers...
Color
Her favorite weapon was color. Color, adhering to no anatomy, bleeds, stains, and obscures.
Confrontation
She would tell it like it is She, young, With a Future, romps down the aisle naked but not realizing it.
Coffee
THE TEA LOVE SOCIETY has been carrying on an illicit counter-education program.
Artist
The man in the shroud found His place in time: it was an institution of the mental variety, 1950's America.

. . . Short Short Stories
Dream Envy
Decadence has a look, born by fabrics of different colors.
Words
In the sunburnt space of her grandma's porch, she read the collected fairy tales of Grimm. Thus began her battle with words.
Haw Flakes
Mom notices haw flakes on the kitchen table and mistakes them for something else.
Fitzgerald
Judging by her colored-water, weather-driven ways, there were two places you might have found her that season.
Swimming
The acrid odor of an entire four ounces wafts to her nostrils and rests on her lips. She swallows several times, forces back a shudder, and rushes down the glass of water.
The Plan
Her thoughts danced along the edge of another fine fantasy. Grab him, pay his way; teach him to beg, to behave, to please. His teeth were intact.
Kokopelli