Lesson From Lingering Houses

Speculative poetry seen at first in places like "Poet Lore", "The Alaska Quarterly Review", "The Iowa Review" and others. Poems dealing with the evidence of the surreal in life, depicting characters both ennobled and debased by the physics surrounding them. A man holds the last dinosaur in his basement. Armageddon as conducted from the roof of a farm house. Preparing to defend the house from Santa Claus. A woman who appeases dragons. The parking lot attendant at a time portal. The sole elevator in a building opening on a fantastical landscape.