There is a landscape I return to once I’ve been let down by every last body. Not a horizon, but a fully fleshed out three dimensions— with the topography of a furrowed brow— my gaze is the unadulterated sun ready to burn skin. My papers— technology— sobriety— and intoxication. After the second heartbreak I called […]
Juicy Salute
I hate it when you drive but I love being a passenger My hands in my lap are curled like two shrimp A maternal feeling, fleetingly A phalanx of pines fleecefully Pines and firs and ferns falling to in the rear view & large-winged birds crossing paths in the sunroof, two cursors enskied My dread […]
When I Kissed July
The room was with me— the subway tile, my railway kitchen, the window plant too. I didn’t look. I tore off June, went directly to it. I’ve been murdered and plowed under, all the above, all the way. To die and to know you died, it’s worse than death to die this way. Someone neutral […]
Crematorium
It has long been common knowledge that unseen bells rejoice. That the mouth was made much bigger than the band it forms. This is the one misunderstanding I hope to clarify: Do I describe myself? Yes, I describe myself. The presentation of an inhuman and static head on a body that is human, and thus […]
from Fugitives
a body is one of the plants in this world a plant is one of the many bodies of the world next question what are tulips something in the desert resists tulips plain and simple a wave by height alone i fingered the foam from a boar’s mouth and tasted foam at her feet in […]
from H & G, a novella
Alternate middle #43 G. and H. let the Witch’s house burn, run out of the house, grabbing a few hot gumdrops on the way out, and keep running until they get back to their Father’s house, which they immediately set on fire. One taste of vengeance may lead to another. The Monster’s tools may […]
Basement
Rarely has opportunity for public visibility limited Virgil’s sensibility, particularly in how he delivers his work to an audience in what appears to be his being in a state of seamlessness—if, or as long as he can succumb to his vision, one that finds itself most precise, underwater. Virgil’s vision remains as clear in the […]
Twelve
Take it off, take it off, said the baby with no shirt on straight up in his high blue sky chair pretty certain, off already was his sister’s shirt a little older, a lot quieter. Take it off, said their father to their mother in a different tone. It was August in the Northern Hemisphere, […]
Purple Berries
One day a child showed up in my house. He came up to my chin, not a baby at all. I wondered what I had done to cause this and thought about cavemen who took a mate and did that thing and voilá. How long did it take them to know? Our young ones usually […]
12
I get on the 12 bus and it takes my blinders a good 15 minutes of people watching before my breathing gears down to an unconcerned pace They are all here the misanthropic the bums the tired-dead working overtime to pinch a simple car out of life. The children of welfare guttersnipes standing in the […]
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