Roughneck

(Permian Basin, West Texas)   Uncle Pedro boasted that he earned his living off rotten dinosaurs.   He lamented that Continue reading →

The Women in A9

During foreplay, one of them heard the neighbors––the athletic young Russian couple perhaps?––also indulging, the bed frame crying, murmurs leaking Continue reading →

Sixteen Again

Sometimes I’m sixteen again. He’s smoking a cigarette, rolling the filter around in his teeth. The smoke escapes through the Continue reading →

Elizabethans

Grandpa says Cousin Jenny is an Elizabethan. Apparently Elizabethans are women who like other women. I ask him if Jenny Continue reading →

Counting Bones

      Mercedes Lawry has published poetry in such journals as Poetry, Nimrod, Prairie Schooner, Poetry East, Natural Bridge, Continue reading →

Gertrude Stein’s Brief Song of Cheese

      Mercedes Lawry has published poetry in such journals as Poetry, Nimrod, Prairie Schooner, Poetry East, Natural Bridge, Continue reading →

Souldier

The lightly bearded boy ambles a dusty Jakarta street, S-O-U-L-D-I-E-R splayed from blade to blade back on his tee as Continue reading →

Boys in Love

My fingers ache of gasoline, reek of tiny cuts and missing skin along the backside of my hands.   My Continue reading →