POETRY
Zeitgeber & the Maya (Revolutions) is a novella in verse, a short piece with lots of white space that jumps around playing with time—where characters from inside the story steal the story (letter by letter) and use them as adornments and accessories, then re-configure them, and put the tale back together as an account of revolutions, both armed, second-, and minute-handed. The cover should have a Dali painting as the cover.
“To American, yellow or white” puts provolone cheese in front of a firing squad for crimes against humanity.
“Art History” – Satellite bombs Picasso a house.
PROSE
"For Monks Only" is the short story version of Gao Xinjian's Soul Mountain. It's a travelogue that veers inside the mind -- I becomes you and he and she, a love affair disintegrates, and a cell phone tortures two lovers.
“Fell the Devil” is a chronicle of a struggling tennis player, his prostitute girlfriend, and her husband who has recently been trained as a Fundamentalist.
“Made by Kenner” traces the story of an adolescent boy getting screwed by other kids and a major toy corporation. This reminds you how much that age just sucks.
“The Quetzal” weaves an absurd tale about the sight of a rare bird on the hood of a car into a perplexing look at immigrants and the relationships they have to the new country versus the relationship their children have with that same place.
“I’m so Tired” features a man panicking about the thought of contracting HIV. He obsesses and torments himself while Shakespeare’s sonnets ravage his ear.
“Searching Instructions” finds a man obsessing about a lost strand of hair that he believes contains everything he needs to live. He will stop at nothing to get it.
“On” traces the life of telephone, the tedium, the growth, and the desire to end it all.
“TV” suffers paranoia, believing his insides will heat up and rupture. Secretly, he harbors an unspoken love affair with a plant.
“Untitled” finds you awaking on an eerie bus ride through the universe.
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