Umbilical

truerelic@gmail.com — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:00:00 +0100

Umbilical

As a couple we drag the mattress down the stairs, through the hall, and out onto the back porch. Flomp. I carry the sheet and blanket pinched under one arm. She sidesteps the perimeter. I toss the lot on the bed.

“Thank you for compromising” she says

I nod, and f [...]

Giant-Springs

truerelic@gmail.com — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:00:00 +0100

And but

it wasn't so much

the corridors themselves,

but simply perhaps

decisions that

behind each successive

door crack annually

fester.

Rectangular association,

her internalized linear

culminated upon

and within

a fluted

earth-tone collective

eventually in,

mundane demographic

fashion, etched

Gretchen Tonkin’s

mildly comic

display of personal

abandon.

Loose-Leaf Sherpa

truerelic@gmail.com — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:00:00 +0100

A seasonally clad constructor;

crisp wool slack, thick

rumple sock’d fireside,

the neutered pessimist

hunkers down

squats.

Nocturnal Engineer

Hawk atop

withered Ponderosa

single eyes squirrel trail

free lunch one wonders.

Beaver drop aspen

tactical glow-in-the

dark precision instigates

crick-fork dysfunction.

The Bone Collector

truerelic@gmail.com — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 18:00:00 +0100

Prances

through iris swept

stands giddy just

beyond i [...]

Sedimentary Symmetry

truerelic@gmail.com — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:00:00 +0100

Raptor specks screech

echo seek up-draft

circle cedar dappled

sandstone linear jut

plane-out sage bound

lizard tails flick

Fire-fly hover in

prime numbers

brush

daubes flitter

cast

upon egg-shell

texture courtesy

of the

Powder [...]

Territorial Drumming

truerelic@gmail.com — Mon, 23 May 2011 18:00:00 +0100

Down from Saskatoonoff the HumboldtJubal Gable dropsloaded with beet-pulp in low-gearhands-fulldashlight-n-ditchgrass serpentine like crosses Scobey atMontana mile-markerzero Rabbit-Earred Valleysouth-bound 93. Inside the Fork-n-Spoontail-end of thecounter Gretchen Tonkinfresh toweled rubscoffee-ringsback-ties apronstrings tells "the kitchen" things wistful listeningfor theyellow Pete'slow-slung &q [...]

Sweetgrass Hills

truerelic@gmail.com — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:00:00 +0100

Real Montanan’s

sip whiskey water

idle brown

Camaro’s down

back-streets

in Glasgow

flick spent smokes

at gravel pot-holed

intersects.

Honyocker

lowbrows pile

Basin Fringe

truerelic@gmail.com — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:00:00 +0100

For breakfast

Thomas Diaz

always smoked

store-boughts

fried baloney

buttered toast and

pattered barefoot

robed thru

the kitchen

toting a cup

of pale coffee

speaking softly

The point

at which generally

things begin

to come un-raveled

is tangent with

an obt [...]

Imminent Regression

truerelic@gmail.com — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:00:00 +0100

You made a

brief appearance

the other night

it appears dear

dressed I guess

in a gabardine mesh

crimped rumpled with

burgundy hem stitched

offering the notion

of communication

there

Thomas Diaz drank

Dos Equis and drove

a dark blue Mustang

yellow stripes

we’d painted on

in th [...]

Snack-Pac

truerelic@gmail.com — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:00:00 +0100

At considerable

altitude Cheeto puffs

drift back of

Volvo wagon’d

car-seat smear.

Entries for harvey gable

Umbilical

Giant-Springs

Loose-Leaf Sherpa

The Bone Collector

Sedimentary Symmetry

Territorial Drumming

Sweetgrass Hills

Basin Fringe

Imminent Regression

Snack-Pac