Travis Stephens
Name O Names
I have thought some names don't fit and could use revision; other words
are ill suited and as disappointing as your first anchovy.
Why hippopotamus? That should be a flower.
Who would ever eat an artichoke and not risk a Heimlich?
Why not order, instead, a steaming bowl of Mesopotamia?
Plutonium for two, a pot of lamb, fresh crop of harlequin.
Look around at names ill-suited: cute little hand grenade.
That bird? Rapier on the wing.
A flock of filibusters all in a row.
Bulbs for the rare euphonious infantile, planted in the spring.
Jigging for snoqualmie.
A brace of baptist hen.
Nice crop of harquebus among the rodent trees.
Hope for a return to Seaborgium, in the spring.
Other words are adequate and more:
a tank is best left alone; beware the Kalashnikov.
Suffer from pterodactyl or bad Sagittarius.
I lay awake at night with the dread of metastatic calculus.
Worse of all the I am afflicted with parting,
disenfranchisement and separation. Pale, unfit
words for you, lover, now
Gone.
are ill suited and as disappointing as your first anchovy.
Why hippopotamus? That should be a flower.
Who would ever eat an artichoke and not risk a Heimlich?
Why not order, instead, a steaming bowl of Mesopotamia?
Plutonium for two, a pot of lamb, fresh crop of harlequin.
Look around at names ill-suited: cute little hand grenade.
That bird? Rapier on the wing.
A flock of filibusters all in a row.
Bulbs for the rare euphonious infantile, planted in the spring.
Jigging for snoqualmie.
A brace of baptist hen.
Nice crop of harquebus among the rodent trees.
Hope for a return to Seaborgium, in the spring.
Other words are adequate and more:
a tank is best left alone; beware the Kalashnikov.
Suffer from pterodactyl or bad Sagittarius.
I lay awake at night with the dread of metastatic calculus.
Worse of all the I am afflicted with parting,
disenfranchisement and separation. Pale, unfit
words for you, lover, now
Gone.
Biography
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Travis Stephens is a tugboat captain who resides with his family in California. A graduate of University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, recent credits include: Dime Show Review, Gyroscope Review, 2River, Sheila-Na-Gig, From the Depths, Miletus, and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature.
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