I sleep with mytop hat on these days.It keeps the rabbits fromcrawling out and runningaway.They are the safest close tomy brain when I sleep.I don't want them eaten byferal swine or to wanderoff and drown in a vat of...

Tonight, I lie in bed andscribble in a black spiralnotebook.Why is cruelty easy forsome? Like lying downa card.One of my three cats,Mojosits sleepily onmy old maple desk.She is all black.The computer screen isblack.So are the speakers,microphone,and a coffee cup...

I was starving inPennsylvania.One night, I hadenough.Done with it all.The poverty andsickness.The drunken madnightsand dog-fight days.Brutality for breakfast.Served sunny side uprunny yolks withbutterflies trapped inthe yellow sunshine.Spiders built webs inmy soul.I stood on the torn-upcouch in my living room...

Stick a knife in the dawn.Twist the peoniesinto puppets.Put the goldfish onthe counter and feedit cereal.Mice cast shadows asbig as elephants onthe yellow walls ofmy heart.Dance a slow waltz withthe philodendron.Dig upMotzartBach, andWagner.Make a chocolate cake.Read me, TS Eliot,...