Author Archives: frank

Back up the stairs for the last time, I ran my fingers along the dingy wooden handrail to the second floor. I tried to hold on to the feel of the cold on my lips, the smell of the wetness outside. Ahead of me, in the dark narrow stairway, bags in her hand, her black […]

I saw my sister this evening. Not because I wanted to. I’d gone to my aunt’s house to get some papers from her that she needed me to fax. My sister came out of the shadows as I was getting back into the car in the driveway. “Hey, brother,” she said holding a Happy Meal […]

Earlier, I thought I gonna write a whole rap song about swinging for the fences because of today’s word. Five hours after not being able to figure out why my computer takes like 10 minutes to boot into Windows, I just wanted to swing my brand new computer into the garage door. But I didn’t. […]

It’s another late one. My new computer is apparently frail as it failed to boot after a restart today. I want to blame it on Microsoft because there was an update that installed, but who frickin’ knows. I couldn’t even get the thing to boot into the repair mode but later it looked like that […]

Enchanted is cold to mebecause winter has no teeth in Floridait’s the chapped lips earlysplitting when the cafe con leche hits thembut around 10amyou’re in the sun in a t shirtthe sky is clear blueand at night you drive with the windows downmaybe you crank some In the Air Tonightif you’re old like me.Enchanted is […]

Today’s word suuuuuucks. Husky is either a dog, a brand of some kind, I forget if it’s pants or tools (just looked it up, it’s a tool brand at Home Depot), or you know, fat. Maybe I can say it like hoo sky? Or something that is too much of a husk or of husking? […]

BuildI build with wordssometimesthough the desire is somehowless than how littleI want to fix the steps on the deck.I’ve got tonsof reasons to avoid that joblikeWhat if the tetanus gets me?There’s plenty else to doand I’ve taken to avoiding thingsby going on walksproclaiming it a healthy moveusing the watchso it counts the exercise in a […]

I was back at the kitchen table again, and it was freezing there. Not making this up because today’s word is freeze. It’s always cold there, where we do the boy’s homework and eat dinner. Yeah, I’m the guy who makes his kid do his homework on Friday night. I could’ve told the robot to […]

I write at the kitchen table todaywhile the boy does his homeworkand I decidea poemwhich is feelinglike a bad idea 6 lines in.This is what I wish I could do well againthis is the dance I prefermy kind of tune.This is the kind of bedI like to fuck inor die tryingbut man, I’m runningout of […]

I got to this late today, so I’m typing in bed, which is physically awkward. I got my legs raised up and the bottom of the laptop is against my legs. Screen is tilted down toward me and I can see the letters pop up on the screen at this weird angle. But this is […]