Month: April 2011

  • Published in the Hun Review

    This is just a list of things I’ve managed to get published in the Hun Review, my school’s literary annual: 2010: The Memory of Pain 2009: The Walking Man 2008: From Arizona to Missouri 2007: Somewhere Beyond the Bitter End 2006: Takings and Leavings 2005: The King Lies Dying; The Burning Moment 2004: A Tide…

  • The Burning Moment

    or, Mikey’s Last Night I’m scared now. Everyone is scared now — they’re scared of me because of something I did, and now they look at me with new eyes, and I’ve caught their fear the way I’ve caught their scent. I can’t hear Little Little crying anymore, but that’s because Big Lady and Little…

  • Blaze

    A thrill runs through them – swarming in the darkness cast by the night sky – as a man steps to the microphone And harangues.. A moment before they were a hundred lives with a thousand cares milling about in momentary association. A moment later they are a seething oneness with two hundred eyes but…

  • Drift

    A single moment is a glistening sparkle Drifting playfully on the sighing wind Individually insubstantial, melting at your gentlest touch, Your slightest attention, Escaping by your very attempt to capture it Destroyed by your every attempt to preserve it   Yet All those moments that evade your eye That fall around you, unnoted, unknown Softly…

  • The Walking Man

    The walking man keeps walking through fire and through ice He never doubles back or walks the same path twice Though there may not be tolls, there always is a price. The walking man keeps walking through fire and through ice The walking man keeps walking and will not be deterred Every step with growing…

  • From Arizona to Missouri

    In the summer of 2007, I had an epiphany. It was about, of all things, Rock, Paper, Scissors. Rock, Paper, Scissors is a non-transitive method of decision between two people, wherein each secretly picks one of the items and they compare. The key bit is that each item ties with itself, loses to one item,…

  • The Memory of Pain

    Awhile back, I had a toothache. I don’t mean a sort of ache-in-the-gums, vague, “oh, I’d better brush more regularly” toothache. I am talking about a full-blown nuclear meltdown in my teeth. Throughout my life I have been blessed with pretty strong teeth but now the evil forces of dental decay had their vengeance. It…

  • Takings and Leavings

    Let’s just take a moment Take stock of where we stand. I could take you all the way If you’d just take my hand. I can take direction When your writing’s on the wall I will always take your side But I won’t take the fall. When you leave me, you still take me by…

  • Meaning Between Extremes

    The fact I walk in darkness Doesn’t mean I love the night And the fact I didn’t see it Doesn’t mean I’ve lost my sight. The fact I won’t surrender Doesn’t mean I want to fight. And the fact it all went wrong, Doesn’t mean it wasn’t right. The fact I never said I love…

  • A Tide Between

    Two bodies whirl past each other, reaching across the void tugging at each other’s centers pulling each other into a dance they circle a common center If things were simple, if they were simple The dance would be eternal A balance between come-hither And keep away That turns attraction to stability. But they are not…