It’s not just that the invisible man will never see what he looks like in sunglasses and that he knows everything better than the back of his own hand and that his invisible skin can sting with the indignity of sunburn.
It’s that every room he is in remains empty. It’s that closing his eyes [...]

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Poem by poem in the order given
Ordered by the name of the journal in which the poems first appeared… and then the rest
In alphabetical order, by title
Poems that begin on even numbered pages first
Grouped by title and presumed theme: animal, mineral, vegetable; fire, water, earth, air; people, place, thing, event
Randomly, marking your progress carefully with [...]

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Another Sunday, another disconnected day contemplating what is and what should be. The shambles that is my life and whether there is any hope in it. Thoughts of killing myself (let’s be honest, though I admit I am drawn to the gentle euphemisms and slippery, soft phrases “move on” and “end it” and “take my [...]

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Stars, inter-stellar light, quantum entanglement, the sound leaves make in the dark as night sets in, the small hollow at the base of a woman’s neck, hip bones, ruins of Roman coliseums, emotion expressed in the eyes, emerald flaws, solipsism, recurrence, multiple infinities, infinity plus one, ruined and abandoned places I once inhabited, the gathering [...]

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Situation
A man is sealed inside a windowless elevator and either suspended above the ground by a crane or towed through deep space at a constant acceleration of approximately 32 feet per second per second. There is no way for the man inside to know the difference. If he were to drop a penny from his [...]

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I seek change and I fear it. I feel alone and worry about losing friends. I’m tired of the entanglements of so many things while knowing I’ve come this far and gained almost nothing along the way. I know my own insufficiencies intimately. There’s a kind of comfort in them as there is in the [...]

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