Kylan

phased out could josephine baker dance this new lightbulb, too in whipped limbs that horrified the "drys"? —this swig of trapeze glass could be arms into shoulder blades, or grope ...

An Innocent Misinterpretation of Young Virgin Being Sodomized By Her Own Chastity, 1954 at the balcony in nothing but a pair of heels— “spring is an floral pornographic, after all; ...

pussy-willow mr. smith's choir class was at the end of the day our child voices like a chandelier's tragedy across a marble floor the bosom-tucked facets bending the light of ...

degenerative disc disease motes of hay seed and loose crown settling through light like oriental old age. he lifts a bale of hay and later passes out against the wire ...

Thank you both for your critiques and kind words. Good point with the late introduction of the narrator, Gryph. I wasn't sure what it was trying to get at, what ...

a view from the porch i am out of the west. this is my third porch, made from wood dragged up from the horse creek, scrubbed to back-hand resins, dark ...

Pain Today I learned two things: that Dr. Jack Kevorkian died early this morning in Michigan and that there are bison in my state— a blue creature I thought reserved ...

dialysis river easing into the hills like a sunday drive and we stood thigh deep in the water with fishing lines, flies tied like blood truces and the water heavy ...

danse des mères her dance is a ribbon tugged from undone hair. she is merely practicing on an empty stage. it is how she laces up her flats, the tight ...

pottery larynx of clay, proto-minoan, shaped under hands and lengthening in the sun like a growing thirst. somehow it is still pertinent to ask how to hold water, even as ...

daddy under the porchsteps mushrooms clotting like small, daily fears – fear for the safety of one's child, fear of household chemicals fear of dying of old age – white, ...

Thank you all! I appreciate your thoughtful comments. I find it interesting that so many people see this as a poem about peaches, though! -Kylan

caryatid young girls who danced with baskets on their heads. ripple of their sheer fabric caught perfectly in stone, like snakes held still by the base of the skull. these ...

After watching Big Bad Voodoo Daddy in concert -- how does your garden grow strange brass flower garden – these hammered valved blooms, in this hothouse of booze and stubbed ...

Interesting interpretation, Navita. One thing I love about your critiques is how willing you are to delve beneath the deeper themes and beatings of a piece. I wrote this piece ...