The Venus Flytrap: Son of a Sun

Dear Sun God (aka Papa),
I hope you don’t mind if I hang around a bit more after my daily prayers today. After all, it’s not like you have very much to do. There’s a couple of things I’d like to talk to you about. I’ll pause for a minute and see if there’s an apocalypse [...]

LiteraryMinded on Witchcraft

Angela Meyer on the book, here. And a poem you may already know, but hopefully still like. :)

Stalk Me Not

Well, Not More Than I Might Want You To (she typed, passive aggressively).
On my 100th tweet, I realised that I hadn’t mentioned it on my blog. Here.

The Venus Flytrap: Constant Clicking

It used to be that the self-portrait was a revolutionary thing, a means of staking out the claim of the individual in a world where the common and communal ruled roost. In the birthday week of Frida Kahlo, the high priestess of exactly such behaviour, it might be nice to remember this – the power [...]

Poems in Drunken Boat

I have two poems in the tenth anniversary issue of Drunken Boat. They are both new works, from this year, and you can find them here. The one I prefer is “Mirrors”; I see both being in the book I am working on now, Bulletproof Offering.