Hour Twenty-three – Pick the title of a book that you love. That title is now the title of the poem. That poem can be about the book directly, or indirectly, or it can use the title as a jumping off point and be about…

Cleansing so high and mighty, four colossal chandeliers unreachably distant, magnificent in their glory each festooned with hundreds of tiny bulbs. for the visitor, a majesty to behold please consider, for the worker, an interminable tedium to clean.

Sometimes a boy wants to flap his hands Jump up and down Chew Alone. There isn’t really alone in the city. Autism attracts attention. Differences do that. Attention usually means stares Sometimes glares Scowls The worst are comments. 1 in 100 comments will be confirmation….

ooooo Seeing things through to the end – my only useful trait borne of being accustomed to waiting. Waiting is also a vice, and inaction a sort of visceral thing, conservation of energy, a kind of gluttony. I’m intimately familiar with vice and gluttony as…

DogSpeak #23 Employment Application Name The Dog Skills: Retriever fetch and fill with slobber, shred into crosscut pieces Landscaper unearth anything that makes noise or smells bad; digger, unplanter, uprooter Demolition Expert any material, no job too big or small; no clean-up included Bounty Hunter…

I remember when I got you I was small and so was the edition A little old, oh how I loved the texture And the slightly off colour I remember you had a special place You never went to the bookshelf But stayed right there—…

From Mémo I hope you return to your native land Where everyone should be See if you can get in touch with your cousins Despite the fact that they abandoned me Live a good life Don’t let the bastards grind you down To Mémo I…

Acknowledgement: ‘How to use your Healing Power’ by Dr Joseph Murphy speaking of wounds did you know that you can heal yourself that you can heal of wounds past and present that you can heal from emotional and physical hurts through a simple process as…

She was a bit different  had been since birth  No prey drive within her she worshipped the earth  The others they’d tease her  tell her she was broken inside  This lovely creature  truly a gift full of pride Not like the others  she was born…

You are not deserving of an origin story and you will not be remembered I know the deeds of your hands they can never be truly cleaned You are the monster here I will send you back to Hell These words you speak are empty…