Short stories about people behaving badly. 

Groundscratchers

Four Horsepersons of a Disappointing Apocalypse 

Poems basically showing why maybe you don't want to be a bird. 

The Death of Flying Things 

Number nine in the Seven Kitchens Press Editor’s Series, selected by Ron Mohring

An Eye Fluent in Gray

Poems about Pennsylvania, mostly. And plants, none of which behaved badly. 

Dirt and All Its Dense Labor

"A Gardener's Prayer," read on WPSU radio. Poem from my book Dirt and All Its Dense Labor (2006). 

WPSU Poetry Moment 

Two birds rest in mute 
telepathy on one side of a cross
at the apex of the oldest
church still upright and
poking at a low-slung heaven. 

Two Poems

"His efforts to fit in mix bravado with pathos, something akin to yelling an apology at someone you didn’t want to know you cared for."

Fiction Review: Gabriel Welsch Reads Benjamin Drevlow’s Story Collection Honky

"We quaffed blood and oil, 
	rendered suet to guzzle draughts . . ." 

12 Dinners

Listen as your brain sings to you again and again a song with words you’ve known as long as you can remember. Listen as it swells, a soundtrack to a movie you’re tired of starring in.

How To Change the Headlight Bulb in a 2015 Chevy Traverse

I knew better than to go on a television show with a woman I partied with a couple times and who’d just had a kid. But those were my drinking years . . . 

How Shithead Got Her Name

"That winter we left our hope
beneath the snow . . ."

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