Jul
2020
Sci-Fi Writing
ANDROGYNE KEY - Character Excerpts PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION It was impossible to separate Androgyne from the ship, or the ship from her. She herself did not know where one ended and the other began anymore. Gypsy Heart was four thousand tons of polycarbide mayhem salvaged from the brutality of the 4th millennium--a yellow and black hornet birthed from the scrapyards of Hades-Gamma IV. Androgyne Key shared her sharp lines and subtle curves.[...]
Jul
2020
The Universe that Loves
The Universe that Loves When I was young and foolish I wanted to be a thing That people yearned to possess And being owned, made happy But now my hair is full of gray And I see the world for what it is If I am owned I am not free And I am better than a cage I am the universe that loves The wind that sings, the sea[...]
Jul
2020
Card Tricks in the Dark
CARD TRICKS IN THE DARK it feels like the world is ending but brandi carlile's playing in my dreams and you're standing in an airport with grass growing on your arms you said you liked my lips and twenty years fell away you're still sonnet 17 from how or when or where you might be the flamingo with the broken leg or the sun who counsels patience or you might[...]
Jul
2020
God of Brine
GOD OF BRINE a swelling from the deep; rising from an ancient berth and hope, emerald thing, bound in salt and sea—God of Brine—widow maker, friend to pagan men, brother to an ithacan wanderer who spurned worship; brought now from whispered, rotten realms, keeper of atlantis, graveyard, invincible monster, barrier, lover, giver of life; we offer up our bodies to your embrace, that you might feed your children as we[...]