Golem Says Goodbye
Not sure what else to say except it was too much, couldn’t be the tough everyone wanted, no blood coursing through my veins like humans tinkered together by He Who Shall Not Be Named,… Read More »Golem Says Goodbye
December 2016
Coda of Christmas Humbugs
I’ll be answering to myself while I look for him, he who left the premises so long ago, but now when I stand inside the… Read More »Coda of Christmas Humbugs
Promissory Note from Golem
To tell the truth, bleeding has never gone over big in my family; golems are of a more solitary silicone nature, but then there’s the… Read More »Promissory Note from Golem
Graveler
All shadows in the world are screams and like stones plopped in water, they form consecutive rings, each one becoming wider than the next until… Read More »Graveler
Golem Doesn’t Get Jack
I got dealt the right hand, but didn’t know what was left of me. Stepping on broken glass, a breeze cried out and hopped over… Read More »Golem Doesn’t Get Jack
The Right Hand
My heart was in the right place, grown children in the bloodlines of my inner space, a practicum for laboring over my cheese and cracker… Read More »The Right Hand
Golem Speaks Truth to Power
Between earth and sky and the bearded light of filtering stars, I walked away homeless, death trailed close behind like a poor relative, but tonight, something… Read More »Golem Speaks Truth to Power
Clay Man of Cheese and Crackers
It wasn’t a job for one man let alone a clay man of cheese and crackers. At night after the lights on the block went… Read More »Clay Man of Cheese and Crackers
Power Wash
I wanted to control him, but in a good way, like a Mickey Mousenik from the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, my honey-do mopping up mess with a wooden… Read More »Power Wash
Sweeter
Another golem came around. Oh, yes. There’s more than one. Talked to students, retirees, regular people. And what happened? Mein kinder cuckoo in the head tarred him with names: socialist,… Read More »Sweeter