michael harper wants to be your friend

One day, this will be my #office every day. (at mi casa)

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:00:09 -0400

One day, this will be my #office every day. (at mi casa)

Black baptism gown

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:00:57 -0400

You were a cum stain on my favourite black jeans, the matching puddle a shadow on a couch I sold to an overweight couple from a suburb called Beaverton. They had an eleven-year-old son who really liked the couch, and I felt like he could smell the leftover sex as he bounced on the damp cushions, pleading its purchase.

I sold that shame for forty bucks and helped pack it into a minivan, but I wore those jeans all summer, to tatters, like the holes in the pockets were mocking and mimicking me both at once, because I couldn’t hold anything in.

The first things that went were the back pockets. My keys kept poking out and I kept dropping my wallet when I bent over. That saying about “a hole in your pocket,” the one about money – was pretty literal.

On the other hand, all my money was alchemized to booze; I was baptized in it all summer long, and those jeans were my baptism gown.

#Mom, #sister, and #dad, pre-1985, being cute &c. (at...

Sun, 12 May 2013 21:50:25 -0400

#Mom, #sister, and #dad, pre-1985, being cute &c. (at before I was born)

#generic #nighttime #etc

Sat, 11 May 2013 01:51:04 -0400

#generic #nighttime #etc

Photo

Fri, 10 May 2013 10:15:22 -0400

radiationcity: ANIMALS IN THE MEDIAN :: PHOTO CREDIT HILL...

Thu, 09 May 2013 01:53:03 -0400

radiationcity:

ANIMALS IN THE MEDIAN :: PHOTO CREDIT HILL HUDSON

I really do have to add: DAMN.

Scappoose, Oregon. April 2013.

Tue, 07 May 2013 11:43:34 -0400

Scappoose, Oregon. April 2013.

Rest stop, last year with Rad City.

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:27:03 -0400

Rest stop, last year with Rad City.

READING FRENZY

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:32:29 -0400

This great place called Reading Frenzy

only needs, like,

200 more dollars to stay open.

Won’t you help a sister out:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/947849256/reading-frenzy-relaunch

poetsorg: <3 Frank

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:29:59 -0400

poetsorg:

<3 Frank

BLACK PLANET READING SERIES #3

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:52:26 -0400

I will be reading a few new & old poems at The Tardis Room this Sunday in Portland. That’s the fish & chip place on Killlingsworth, y’know? The Doctor Who themed bar. Right by the highway overpass. If none of this makes sense to you, here is the Facebook event page.

Anyway, it’s going to be a great night, with musical guests and plenty more poets. It starts at 8pm, it’s free, and it will leave you joyful or pregnant or possibly British. I hope to see you there.

Released Sheep. #erasure #poem, for when I’m stuck on the...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:33:00 -0400

Released Sheep. #erasure #poem, for when I’m stuck on the crossword. Suck on it, #willshortz

This guy just turned thirty. This was taken in March, last year,...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:46:45 -0400

This guy just turned thirty. This was taken in March, last year, somewhere between Texas and California, I think.

DISENGAGE

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:41:00 -0400

I supposed her an always

and asked her to forever too

soon and we nevered each other again

You are under and above it all

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:37:00 -0400

I remember you from the tomorrow I wanted when my eyes were deep soil,

I feel you in my yesterday, planted beneath the salted earth in my chest,

you are familiar when I will be old,

the unforgotten roots that will answer my question

A Map of Purgatory, or That One Time I Worked In A Call Center

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:28:15 -0400

My poem “A Map of Purgatory, or That One Time I Worked In A Call Center” was published in issue 66 of Burningword Literary Journal. It’s in print & online! You can buy the issue here, or read it for free here.

OR IN DRAG // an erasure poem

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 20:32:12 -0400

OR IN DRAG // an erasure poem

Arizona

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 20:11:38 -0400

Arizona

Cam Spies & Lizzy Ellison of Radiation City, this time, last...

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 20:10:00 -0400

Cam Spies & Lizzy Ellison of Radiation City, this time, last year, in Tuscon, Arizona.

Jo & Karl

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 20:01:00 -0400

Jo & Karl