As soon as your head hits the pillow
your scissor-legs start to move
You clutch my arm like a purse
as we walk down a shopping aisle
Green cabbages turn their heads
and gossip as we walk by
When your eyelids flutter like wings
I know you are dreaming of coupons
Spare change trickles into a pool
where the lonesome cashier swims
work has appeared in The MacGuffin, Nerve Cowboy, SurVision, Spillway, and numerous other magazines and anthologies. His most recent chapbook, Drowning the Boy, won The James Tate Poetry Prize for 2021 (SurVision Books). His two full-length collections of poetry are 1000 Black Umbrellas (Write Bloody) and The Moon, My Lover, My Mother & the Dog (Moon Tide Press).
