Out of lament for the body, touch the body. Skin marred with sunspots and scars and the tenderest touch of lips to the inner-under wrist. Out of this body, the fear of no body, where all mass evaporates into sun, the instant heat of now, then not. Out […]
The antiquated stench of the town—horse piss, saltmarsh, rotting shoes and wood—and upward our noses turn. Ballast-packed streets, the ships unloading wares to market. Handled and nameless. We’ve got our science minds on tonight. We sit inside a clapboard house playing “Solve for Mouse” in hospital gloves at […]
The list of wants lengthened. Though, for a while, I didn’t need you anymore. Seasons shifted from the passive arid blue sky to the tropical congestions of heavy-bellied clouds. The heat of summer collapsed a onehundred- year-old tree. The root ball resembled a medusa head. I did much […]