garlic

kitchen odors run
pepper burns the eye i itch
my pupils focus perfectly through tearing

and dance on your belly
salt grinding smooth
suggestive
cigarette drags your lip

finding your panties on the bedroom carpet
in the morning
i get a slight craving for chicken

     Between working at various vocations in Niagara Falls, New York including baker, sales manager, cheese packer, and printer, I've placed poems with numerous litmags, ezines, anthologies, and broadsheets. I co-founded Slipstream Magazine and Press in 1980 and have been a co-editor ever since.
     Lately, I have discovered that more and more of my hair appears to collect around the shower drain. Not a good omen.

other online publications:

Disquieting Muses:
• http://www.disquietingmuses.com/May00/sicoli1.html
• http://www.disquietingmuses.com/May00/sicoli2.html
Thunder Sandwich:
• http://www.thundersandwich.com/ts12/sicoli.html
Stirring:
• http://sundress.net/stirring/archives/v2e1/sicolid.htm