He stops drilling into the root canal because I raise my left handTrying my best to hold back a world’s … More
Category: Pain
Bracing Myself
The green tinted windowsCast an emerald glow over everythingIt’s like coming to Oz to ask for a fillingMy new dentist, … More
Extraction
It’s at moments like these a man faces his mortalitySmokes that last cigarette to settle his nervesA prisoner facing the … More
Numb
I’ve lived in Madison three years without a teeth cleaningThe dentist, between grunts, tells me I must do this more … More
Before Fluoride
There’s something quirky about his eyesThey vibrate electric, left right left rightTwo butterflies trapped like ratsIn almond-round drains that swirl … More
A Few Words to the Wise
I remember how I lost my teeth, the wisdom onesAll four at one blow to a drillAnd on a tray, … More
The least I can do
In the last years I wonderWhy I have to do thisVisit in the nursing homeNow that your mind is goneAnd … More
Relieving Memory
Funny how memory can play the roleOf a well-meaning deceiverWhisperer of white liesWeaver of softening patternsRounder of rough contoursA childhood … More
Blue Elephant
I’m not into tattoos. The first thing I ask a woman who’s interested in taking a relationship further is if … More
Broken Trust
Many years have passed, and I still can’t get the image out of my head,all the broken glass I swept … More
Lanning Lee 