Excerpt from Let’s Get Drunk And Yell This Out: “A Messiah Turns to the Sky, Only to See the Clouds” (2013)

Hey, my book comes out on Friday. The Barnes and Nobel edition might be a little late to the party considering how long the vendor account review process is taking, but I’ve already got the Amazon and the Tumblr editions ready and lusting for your attention. So much so that a few poems have gotten loose …

Event Horizon (2015)

the dead-lift dread drip starts,              a-right about the moment you do.shift simmering half-past,I get this grave-gut-drop like event horizon,and baby, baby, you’re eatin’ all the light in here,and it’s been night for so long. so come on, steady that bead,hold that pulse,d      o       n        ‘        t     b       r       …

Endless love don’t turn back time, it don’t, and I ain’t waitin’ ’till it does; There’s things that need doin’. (2013)

It ain’t that I want to be offensive,(I’m just sayin’ that cause I know I might be,and for whatever reason it’s more important that you like me,than you think I’m bein’ honest ‘bout this.)but what is it that some of them evangelicals go on about?“A personal relationship with Jesus Christ.”Or, ya know, God.Same thing, least …

El Capitan (2013)

It won’t ever mean as much to you,    as it does to me.    as it does to me, slamming fist first into the wall of a shower stall,    first floor men’s side MacLean dormitory,    water        dripping            down my nose, lips, red fists I’m too cowardly to bleed.    toes curling into the grout …

Donor List Guilt (2013)

My sister needs a bone graft.What at one point we were worried was leukemia,is actually something called osteonecrosis. The bone in her left hip is literally rotting. You can’t–can’t–can’t take a plug that big from a living donor,‘n my sister is 17 and 5 foot zilch,so we’re waitin’ for someone to die young. It’s a …