Carsonville Shoot-out

broken capillaries under your cheeks
get some cream cheeses on that, raspberry
and onion-flavored, I’d dip carrots
and noodles and slices of roughly spoiled cukes

Ocean

and night and moon. Leaves and shadow and blown
time trial. Remember Marathon. Greece or Italy? Remember
Joe and Steve and others with Americangeneric names.

Slighage

Because I look up to you.

Vet

the verb to vet, want heat, eerie and loud all night. these much-neededs,
triple word score. want to talk about the trees outside with eyes, the cat
on the roof, wailing rain, wailing about rain, wet cat, dollar short, needs
to be picked up out of the window because the trees are always watching.

Valentine for You

America if I could be fodder preserved through fermentation I would
Atlanta Review if I could list my feelings I would
Creative Juices I would draw faces for you for how I grieve your leaving
Kaleidoscope me out of your attention; did you used to make new crayons
Limestone from old crayons in the wax-color double boiler?
Long Island Quarterly silo from Gk. siros "a pit to keep corn in."
Mondo Greco love the Internet for all the words you find there
NotaBene open understanding confident reliable easy amazed free sympathetic
Sierra Nevada College Review peripatetic interested satisfied blow-jobby lip-stacky Worcester Review receptive blowttom boy accepting kind
Barrow Street happy great gay joyous lucky fortunate delighted overjoyed underfed
The Columbia Poetry Review overpaid gleeful thankful thanked festive important imported Conjunctions brew-fed ecstatic festive ecstatic repetitive glad satisfied cheerful
Fence calm peaceful at ease comfortable rising in the east pleased encouraged
Insurance economically stimulated clever surprised pried content tented teneted tenured
Jacket quiet certain quaint (pronounced with a southern accent) (no, with a Texas accent) (southern American accent, to be Amerocentric, UScentric) relaxed serene free and easy bright Mississippi Review vulnerable empty forced hesitant despair frustrated distressed
New American Writing woeful plathic pathetic pathetique beethovened tragic in a stew
Pressed Wafer deaf dominated upset hateful unpleasant offensive
Shiny bitter aggressive updated blogged resentful aggressive angry inflamed
Skanky Possum flamered bashed trashed horned dogged cross worked up
The Spook boiling boiled fuming fumigated indignant disgusted despicabled
Terra abled bald bladed bludgeoned bad a sense of loss detestable miserable
Urbanus dissatisfied lineated unlined rough mashed wombled