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Chandler
Burning the midnight down to the sacrum, I can’t remember how it felt to create. The way the universe intended, I can not find the memory at all. It’s like a notebook torn to the fray, my head is all soft clouds of, it’s okay. It’s just okay now. I probably owe an apology to a psychiatrist, […]
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Short Fiction – Drive Through Gods
Chuck Palahniuk’s legacy reinvention of Tom Spanbauer’s ‘Dangerous Writing’ group was initially dubbed the ‘Writing Wrong’ class at The Attic Institute of Arts and Letters. It was later restructured into ‘The Lie Factory’ at the Corporeal Writing Center, and now it takes residence somewhere in Portland, Oregon, under another name. The focus: minimalist transgressive short story writing. This […]
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Bird Lady
I have absolutely lost my mind and for sure it is never coming back. This year has made a wreck of us all I’m sure; there are no therapists or tattoo artists with open books these days so I’ve taken instead to kitchen pottery the kind a home-bound geriatric’s descendants would relent to the depths […]
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Swallow
Old grief gurgling in the drainis threatening to back up if we don’t dumpsomething carcinogenic on itsome tequilais mocking usto kill three birdswith one old fashioned rockor an ounce for every year sincethe heart attack and the overdose and the malignant bit of bodythat taught me how grief can clog up your arterieswithout the right […]
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Poem Sequence – #1 New Release on Amazon
In November I was asked to write a feature set for the Portland Poet’s Society anthology, ‘You, Me, & The End Of The World’ which is now available. The chapbook-length collection of my poems tells a story in a 15 part sequence, starting on page 71. I hope you will grab a copy to support […]
NJT
poetry + short fiction
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