I wonder what it’s like to be you, claws and all attentive only to a tidepool beneath this sky of-all-things I envy your pocketless-ness and the other folds you lack for collecting trepidations there is no malignancy of words in shallow water no dashed hopes no fickle dreams it’s just you — solitary — spinning … Continue reading The Hermit
DULLEN SKIES BEGAN to turn from overcast to burdened by clouds that amassed beyond cobbled streets and slanting homes as I approached a memory only to be revisited once more. But it is in glasses of sparkling libation that true vulnerability arises. Suffering guised by confidence and consumption. We spoke in parables of reflection as … Continue reading Prinsengracht
IT IS BENDING into the wind as it passes from left to right across the darkening skyline. Angles overlay flatness. A black spider on a gray blanket. White darts spike the firmament. Then land and arrange themselves on the lamp posts, beaks jabbing, heads wrenched backwards, framing screams. It, the thing describing the arc of … Continue reading The Portal
I know my better selves exist because sometimes they strike out blindly and sometimes they say, Look what you made me do. If it's not synchrony then it's simultaneity. If it's not instantaneous then it's a process hence carcinogenic. Who was that masked man? How great-American the novel that spans twenty thousand generations! Willows wallowing … Continue reading Alchemy
VIC SHUFFLED OUT of the Ellensburg bar at 9 p.m., weary from the booze and the cross-state drive that began in the morning. He needed to crash and recalled a rest area before reaching Snoqualmie Pass. His mid-90s Chevy Impala glided over a recently paved surface and the engine had a low and restful hum. … Continue reading Cascade Crest
As January’s sun, appearing hot through glass, desire is predicated on taking accurate temperature and my mercury is risen. More trees are willows than you might think, my body is catkins, buds, so much has changed since you visited the neighborhood, I’ve built a park I thought you’d like and that you’ve never seen. All … Continue reading Refraction