An Abridged History of American Violence 

The Crocodile Comes for Everyone

Here’s the Thing

Erica leaves tomorrow. But right now, we are a hundred miles from home sitting outside of a 24-hour Korean supermarket, somewhere between Tulsa and the end of the world. I am alone in the predawn with only the steady dinging rhythm telling me...

Artificial Lakes 

and i remember watching the way
vampires turned to dust 
and dust is the thing they tell me 
we'll all return to someday...

Buffy is Trending on Twitter 

 You asked me if maybe
 there were infinite yous
 scattered across a million timelines...

String Theory I

don’t lay me down 
under tornado green skies 

but let me dust gentle 
against oceans I’ve never seen ...

Don't Bury Me in Oklahoma

It was Halyna Rybakova’s birthday when the bombing started.

Almost nothing could soothe her nerves in those first weeks of the Russian invasion of Ukraine — nothing, except for her flower garden...



The Flowers of Ukraine 

With 12 of 50 shows down on his latest U.S. tour, Frank Turner keeps looking around for someone to blame for the exhausting outing.

“Of course, inevitably it’s me,” Turner said from a tour bus on the way to West Virginia for show number 13...

Frank Turner find room for anger and softness on ninth album

Drive too far into the country here in Oklahoma and you might come across a fence full of decaying fish heads. They might be hanging from barbed wire, nailed to a wooden post, or strung up in a tree like grotesque windchimes...

Fish Heads on a Fence Post

I’ve seen him once before. It was a few years ago at one
of your out-of-town games. He was skulking beneath the
bleachers on the home side, all leather and huff like James
Dean...

The Wolf in Locust Grove

On the weekends the boys would
take their bikes into the desert
carrying wicker baskets and sharpened sticks
in search of rattlesnakes...



Gary Reddin

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