The Column (Christ’s Ruff)

 

  Inuit Knife w/ walrus ivory. Northern Canada, 1890. Corsican Vendetta Knife. Che la mia ferita sia mortale : May my wound be fatal.

  Designed for drinking while smoking w/ sound off, apparently

 

 

Cactus Jack’s fast food, Terminator 2: Judgment Day Clemanza’s meatballs, The Godfather Poison mushrooms, Phantom Thread Prison Italian dinn...

An indelible mark.

What if, after years of trial, a love should come and lay a hand upon you and say, this late, your life is not a crime — Joseph Fasano

   (for John)         We wake as if surprised the other is still there,     each petting the sheet to be sure.       How have we managed our...

 

As subject to the Salon Exhibition standards of 1875, this work was denied a place and reassigned instead to the Impressionist Exhibition in...

fresh-water pearls. coral beads.

 

 

 

 

  There are no seagulls in the desert. 

   Sober Alcoholic The enemy of my enemy lives on honeysuckle nectar and never blinks. I took the enemy of my enemy to the creek to watch he...

 

Its history will shine with bright incidents, slight, perhaps, but precious, as in life itself, where the great matters are often as worthle...

Traditional: 1. not experimental; 2. ignorance, thanatos, octopodes, standing stones, sex work, MRIs, cavaliers, Cadillacs, rude boys, burie...

I do not “turn to” other writers or stories in the way you suggest. I read a great deal—short stories as well as everything else. For myself...

 It's strange. I felt less lonely when I didn't know you.

  An interpretation of the Japanese art of Kintsugi, currently showing at the Arc Gallery, Chicago.

Nothing like love to put blood back in the language, the difference between the beach and its discrete rocks and shards, a hard cuneiform, a...