It being the day before Pearl Harbor, which in turn is several years before my birth, it being the year of the dog or was it the horse, no one …

His mother warned him. Too cold. He put his mouth on a parking meter. Some people want to taste everything. A way of knowing. And smell. A woman can fill …

Overnight, the flesh changed. The body turned alien. It is someone else. Face, where do you roam? Who is that sitting down to breakfast? Picking up the phone with odd …

Who decided to bar rain and wind from the discussion? The toothed arms of the rose? Outside the window sparrows skirmish among the seed. Check the passenger manifest. No one …

Draw a line across the page. Draw a line in the sand. Pull out your sword, beggar- man thief. Butcher, baker, candlestick maker, maker of lies. Are you grateful, this-man’s- …

Dangerous, that knock on the door. The heart rests in the body and does not answer. Who knows what sits in the nerves to keep them whole. Then the rush …

He tried to recapture that moment riding the angel wings of memory. The sudden rend in the clear fabric. The bag of heaven broken. The tear then the rush to …

In the old music sincerity prevailed. Undying love haunting the back story. Transience obliterated. Men and women wailing. Demon lovers. So give me the Duke of Earl, he said. The …

Prepare the way. First name the rocks. Lay down highways. Exalt the valleys and the mountains. No need to explain the stars. Playing the radio will pass the time. You …

Caffeine destroyed his ability to use his hands. Shaking endemic and the underlay of paranoia. They gave him a pink card and classified him as a freak. This was only …