Introducing: NEURVOSA
My chapbook NEURVOSA is available now! Order here! More information, including about local availability and readings, TBA.
Expedition: Abandoned Mall (Nomadic Soundsters)
“Bein Hashemashot” (The Winnow)
Also available in print here!
“(De) Composition” (beestung)
Nominated for Best American Science Fiction/Fantasy 2023
Bones
I learned your name
and then forgot it.
I will never know where you are buried
and I wasn’t supposed to know you ever lived.
But when you sank into the land
the air ate your bones and now
I write over old letters that I lost years ago
but the words all look like the names
I never had to memorize.
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I never had to memorize
the words that looked like names.
When I wrote over old letters that I lost years ago
I became the air that ate your bones
and sank into the land.
I wasn’t supposed to know you ever lived.
I will never know where you are buried.
Forget it –
I learned your name.
Matthew 16: 15
You are here because you hate America.
No.
You are here because you hate cops.
No.
You are here because you’re antifa.
Yes. I actually have my badge on me.
We searched you when you came in.
A joke.
No jokes.
Noted.
You are here because you hate Republicans.
Do you want to know why I’m here?
You’d only lie.
Then why are you asking me?
I’m not asking you.
You’re here because you hate me
and everyone I’ve ever loved
and people I don’t know who deserve love anyway.
And even if they didn’t they deserve to live.
I don’t hate.
So we’re the same.
I am nothing like you.
We are exactly the same.
Stop it.
Hath a Jew not eyes?
Are you Jewish?
Who do you say I am?
