HIPPOPOTAMUS BLUES Darling, I’m afraid there’s a hippo In your bathtub. I spotted her hefty reflection In your foggy mirror. I saw her puddles spilled On your marble floors. I stared at her for a while. She, seducing me; She, thinking I was you. She, suggesting what I should do. Darling there’s a hippo In [...]

Three girls piled into Danny’s car to drive from Miami to Orlando, for a night of debauchery they could have had in a Miami drug haven for free. Danny was wise; he recognized the journey as a four-hour ride and wore sweat pants. The girls were insecure—they sat in the back seat in t-shirts that [...]

The Snow that Blows Time Away The whistles and howls stun the huddled bodies at the bus stop while small crisp white specs dot the trees and their barks The street lamp shines a hopeful yellow on the corner and it will flicker once, in a blue moon, a few moons in the season it [...]