Marijuana and Memory

Marijuana and Memory   The illegal and legal use of marijuana is widespread, and for millions of people all over the world, it is their recreational drug of choice. Marijuana is by far the most widely available street drug and the compound of THC in cannabis...

The Two Selves

Visible in her yellow Houdini eyes, the blue sky is in splinters, In this precarious geology of mind and mortal wounds she possesses two minds, everything had bled out to. Discarded skin, feeling multiple, thirsty as a fossil.   One ancient like a knight flailing...

Family Photo, Then and Now

The faces of my family look happy and calm Bending and folding the light, time curving the wind, rusting in our tissue paper faces, our fissures hidden in blown up flesh.   In my memory, there is never one of any of us, I don’t look back along time but down...

Kansas Sunset

As the sun descends, Purple and orange paint the beige colored clouds, wine dark blue cloaks the background. Run along the troughs of the wheatfield, and get closer, a wide screen in view, like the panorama of an old drive-in movie, the soundtrack cicadas and...

Fishing with my Dad

Pimento cheese and bologna sandwiches folded in wax paper, cold fried chicken, courtesy of my mother. Schlitz on ice for dad, grape soda for me, a quick stop at Pete’s for night crawlers, our Bass tracker wearing its chapped tarpaulin skin hitched to the pickup....