Ok, this is it! After a couple years of poetry, a few months of preparations and a few weeks of pulling things together, my new book Arroyo Ink is now for sale online! I’m excited about this one, I think this is the best work I’ve put into print so far. It’s the fifth in [...]

is everywhere: longblack forget-me-nots tied in knots around your pillow, in your sink, in your kitchen, in your mirror. It’s all yours now. On your chest, between your toes, under your nose and over your eyes, It’s all yours now. Laced with you, graced with you, thick traced with you, etch-a-sketched with you, wrapped in [...]

Microphone. Pumping hands botox cheeks unjiggling photo op. Budget speech—children are the future— drugs are bad—feedback squeal. This passes for work. Elected officials, bored reporters & governors, cops & whore dirvs, robbers & parade pompous robbers, taxdollars, tell-tale, checks unbalanced, tale-tell, payola, no tale told. Budget high heels hell to pay dirt, pintail on donkey, [...]

Almost full moon, a sticky sweet smell running through the cemetery. Dying flowers, the smell of accordions and tequila. Candles burning one night every year, light dancing across marble names, memory flickering across faces. Muertos. Stumbling now, through the orange light of candles, fire-colored flowers of the dead, the washed-out moonlight falling blue. A hushed [...]