leaving
the conver
-sation
won't
fail all
those
monday
feels
or stop
them
shuffling
their
reclaimed
barn wood
only to
fold
slabby
and loopy
while
the inhuman
house's
side-
hustled
zombie
loses
count
of the
tricks
pitchforked
by the
mute
truisms
of
sameness and
dandruff
Joe Milazzo is a writer editor, educator, and designer. He is the author of the novel Crepuscule W/ Nellie and two collections of poetry: The Habiliments and Of All Places In This Place Of All Places. His writings have appeared in Black Clock, Black Warrior Review, BOMB, Drunken Boat, Prelude, Tammy, Texas Review and elsewhere. He co-edits the online interdisciplinary arts journal [out of nothing], is an Associate Editor for Southwest Review, a Contributing Editor at Entropy, and the proprietor of Imipolex Press. Joe lives and works in Dallas, TX, and his virtual location is joe-milazzo.com.