DEAD SNAKES

DEVIL’S BOTTOM ROAD Devil’s Bottom Road Maybe kill you quick Devil’s Bottom Road Maybe kill you slow Trick to take you six feet under ...

BLIZZARD OF ICE A blizzard of ice swirls around my heart, encircling, penetrating. I shiver and shake, its conspiracy, frostbitten, b...

WE ARE ALL SPIDERS I see spiders all the time. We are all spiders. We got it on in Noah’s Ark and multiplied in numbers. We left grea...

Domesticity   Wanting you not in circumspect discretion, but letting the explosive madness show, until your knowing, testing, then letting m...

THE BARBARIANS HAD ACTED REGRETTABLY My son found the dragon’s teeth amongst some rocks and fine white sand. He washed them clean in a t...

Bloody Student Cuts A viewing platform:   the world sees him lotus-knee’d on the flat roof of the prematurely aged “New Building” of...

POEM 1: Bottled Sitting amidst sparkling tombs at midnight I am holding a green bottle in my battered hands All the crimson wine in my bell...

Chubby Little Angel slide further along the path mayhem envelopes without a notice mayhem ensues as we slip deeper into den...

Café Solo A visitors’ book lies unopened and unsigned. I look at my face in a glass of black coffee fringed by a caramel corona. The gla...

The Hip Lexicon of Contemporary Television by Peter Magliocco Maglioccolsvgs@aol.com She's a T.V. personality ensconced, ...