heat wave
the blackened skins
of roasting chilies
Month: December 2012
beating sun
the butcherbird’s
open throat
young coconut
beside a wet machete
her breath
magpie
on the barbed wire fence
he swears he’ll change
queen-size bed
sometimes I wonder
where you go to
green field
fallow field
a scarecrow's
patchwork
life
laid off
the snowman
without a scarf
sub-zero
even the snow
slows down
slate sky . . .
deleting the dead
from my Christmas list
not enough time
to think things through —
black ice
Christmas Eve
the strip club parking lot
covered with snow
(originally published in Mayfly, Winter 2010)
New Year’s snowstorm
I unwrap
the calendar
Now accepting submissions for issue 13.1
We?ve published the last poem from issue 12.1 of tinywords and are now open for submissions for our next issue. tinywords 13.1 will again be an open issue, without a