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mourners gather in Joshuatown the prodigal man empties his pockets swimming in my own virility, I was too confused to laugh I needed someone’s permission red face, blue face, green face which face was I going to be today morning harbingers at Death’s last border greet me I wipe my teardrops off the tombstone thisContinue reading “King of the Castle – December 2021”

I emerge bloodied but unbowed under the smoke rings of a genteel spirit a war veteran with one too many accidents in Saigon inviting his children to dine at the war table talking sweet sensabilities into their soft little ears these small upside warriors of freedom were his last memory of her along with aContinue reading “Hao – November 2021”

ever since my memory remembers I would visit him every second Tuesday now was more important than before he was not going to live much longer it was an hours drive from home at night, you could see the spirits forming in the trees his house smelled like a furnace mixed with air freshner acrossContinue reading “Forest Hill – November 2021”