I had to do it. I couldn’t just stand by while he hit her, no matter what she done fer a livin’. Mama wouldn’t be happy about me bein’ in that saloon, with the type of folks that frequent there. Fact is, I wouldn’t have...
(1734-1764) I. Heat sings in the grass, in the fields, in the summer moon, in the hoop of the sun. I lift the leather of the thipi, warm in my hand. The sweat of the hunt cools me, and I crave the dusty body of a woman with skin like sand, night...
The first time we met, I thought you were a daisy. A blond flower, a pretty one, but also common and certainly harmless. It was at a football game, us against Colgate, maybe, or U Penn. It was early in the season, warm enough that you and your...
desiccated, burnt weak of body to the eye, topography crushed beneath the fist of god ebony swallows the night stars snuffed beneath an ashy veil cloying taste of blood on the palate bitter iron melded with the permanence of dust charred scent...
Hospitals always have that one smell: death and decay, barely masked by cheap air freshener and industrial grade sanitizer. I never dreamed you’d be part of the former. Unfortunately for me, the effect of the odor is strengthened by the fact that...
The balance has tipped For a tear is, after all, weight Leaving me hours of an evaporation To contemplate the disparity Between the lived And the regretted I’m trying to hold my desperation Like aged scotch Take all the years And swallow them...
Hundreds of miles inland, I hear the sea swirling beyond suburban homes, sharp-edged rectangular lawns, past crane-flies lugged in the stars’ quicksand and the moon’s fish-light. I listen to the ocean bend with eels and scallops big as heads...
He was part of it, and it of him. In every line engraved into the rough limestone, now cracking and crumbling with time, were the very lines of his face. The dark, earthy yellows were his skin, the sun breaking over the pinnacle, a warm mist washing...
When your father crossed the divider, the only thing that saved you was a Green Lantern pin embedded in your baseball cap, deflecting the glass just enough to save your eye. You wore that crooked scar to my cousin’s wedding but no one noticed. Even...
Contact your lawyer. Find the papers you hid away somewhere because you never really thought you’d need them. Make sure everything is in order. Go back to that bar at the outer rim, the one carved into an asteroid crater. Finally try a glass of the...
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