Bryan Rickert

dark outhouse
the sudden grasp
from below

— Bryan Rickert

Bryan Rickert

deep water 
nothing but bubbles
her scream 

— Bryan Rickert

crop rotation at the body farm

— Bryan Rickert

Bryan Rickert

every day
it tries to kill me
conjoined twin

— Bryan Rickert

Bryan Rickert

reunion dinner the shrunken head of the family

— Bryan Rickert

hatching–

the egg she laid

inside of me

— Bryan Rickert

Bryan Rickert

finding his way home
a year later–
our dead dog

— Bryan Rickert

on the corpse’s face crow’s feet

— Bryan Rickert

Bryan Rickert

town dump
we let the body go
on the count of three

— Bryan Rickert

Bryan Rickert

bloodletting you go

— Bryan Rickert

living alone

all my bookmarks

moved

— Bryan Rickert

Bryan Rickert

zombie wedding the corpse flowers

— Bryan Rickert

Bryan Rickert

exhuming the body 
it meets us
half way

— Bryan Rickert

Bryan Rickert

river fog
the dead boy we thought
was driftwood

— Bryan Rickert

her lifeless face

a red leaf

stuck to it

— Bryan Rickert