fiction and poetry

all entries: apr 2019 to may 2025


			23 May 2025 poem: winter visit, 1994 benjamin harker I didn’t sleep and, trapped in January 1994 in Stepney, in a single Victorian room, / I reached for a timetable

			21 May 2025 poem: mole, 1991 benjamin harker a dark poem from a dark place

			19 May 2025 poem: a salesman, 1991 benjamin harker Life's a banquet, his son had to beam, / and most sons of bitches are starving.

			17 May 2025 poem: van de graaff, 1990 benjamin harker At height on a plastic box, / feet off earth, your hand / spanned that chromy globe

			15 May 2025 poem: fleisch, 1989 benjamin harker One day in German, blond arrogant boy, / you engaged me unexpectedly. / Before too long I punched your nose,

			13 May 2025 poem: a theft, 1988 benjamin harker It was only a stolen kiss, / on the cheek, snaffled by darting in / over your shoulder, during registration, / while you talked to your friend,

			11 May 2025 poem: ants, 1986 benjamin harker There was something familiar / about the way you milled, accelerated / when that little playground rock / was first upturned

			9 May 2025 poem: adored benjamin harker A poem to a life love

			7 May 2025 poem: brian, 1981 benjamin harker Brian had something / I did not / a lump

			6 May 2025 on mary oliver's wild geese james peak Unrequited love, impossible love, stupid, foolish love. My heart is broken, but so is the poet’s.

			5 May 2025 poem: little knot, 1983 benjamin harker Three fingers are the promises, Akela said, taking a finger of his own and swirling it around the circle of my thumb and little finger

			3 May 2025 poem: earliest memory, 1977 benjamin harker I only have as negatives / yellow/navy baby reins

			1 May 2025 poem: glass door, 1983 benjamin harker And I, a head full of bricks, swung thoughtless / around the top post, through the gap, crashed / through the surface of that great, glass, perpendicular sea.

			22 April 2025 lawful good: writing a nomap character tom jones As I wrote the scenes where his attractions are revealed, it was my own coming out story all over again.

			7 January 2025 poem: baptism with sexual autocannibalism brandon goletzski i had a dream / of a man from years ago / alone after jerking off. his head

			1 January 2025 poem: coming out day brandon goletzski i want to take my clothes off in front of you / then my skin too / toss it aside rumpled & empty

			1 April 2019 writer in a dark field: sheila van den heuvel-collins global prevention project They said: There's no representation for MAPs. It's sex offenders, it's victims of sexual assault—so the stories they gave me ended up in this book.

23 May 2025

poem: winter visit, 1994
benjamin harker

I didn’t sleep and, trapped in January 1994 in Stepney, in a single Victorian room, / I reached for a timetable

21 May 2025

poem: mole, 1991
benjamin harker

a dark poem from a dark place

19 May 2025

poem: a salesman, 1991
benjamin harker

Life's a banquet, his son had to beam, / and most sons of bitches are starving.

17 May 2025

poem: van de graaff, 1990
benjamin harker

At height on a plastic box, / feet off earth, your hand / spanned that chromy globe

15 May 2025

poem: fleisch, 1989
benjamin harker

One day in German, blond arrogant boy, / you engaged me unexpectedly. / Before too long I punched your nose,

13 May 2025

poem: a theft, 1988
benjamin harker

It was only a stolen kiss, / on the cheek, snaffled by darting in / over your shoulder, during registration, / while you talked to your friend,

11 May 2025

poem: ants, 1986
benjamin harker

There was something familiar / about the way you milled, accelerated / when that little playground rock / was first upturned

9 May 2025

poem: adored
benjamin harker

A poem to a life love

7 May 2025

poem: brian, 1981
benjamin harker

Brian had something / I did not / a lump

6 May 2025

on mary oliver's wild geese
james peak

Unrequited love, impossible love, stupid, foolish love. My heart is broken, but so is the poet’s.

5 May 2025

poem: little knot, 1983
benjamin harker

Three fingers are the promises, Akela said, taking a finger of his own and swirling it around the circle of my thumb and little finger

3 May 2025

poem: earliest memory, 1977
benjamin harker

I only have as negatives / yellow/navy baby reins

1 May 2025

poem: glass door, 1983
benjamin harker

And I, a head full of bricks, swung thoughtless / around the top post, through the gap, crashed / through the surface of that great, glass, perpendicular sea.

22 April 2025

lawful good: writing a nomap character
tom jones

As I wrote the scenes where his attractions are revealed, it was my own coming out story all over again.

7 January 2025

poem: baptism with sexual autocannibalism
brandon goletzski

i had a dream / of a man from years ago / alone after jerking off. his head

1 January 2025

poem: coming out day
brandon goletzski

i want to take my clothes off in front of you / then my skin too / toss it aside rumpled & empty

1 April 2019

writer in a dark field: sheila van den heuvel-collins
global prevention project

They said: There's no representation for MAPs. It's sex offenders, it's victims of sexual assault—so the stories they gave me ended up in this book.