Her wrinkles were cracks
of youth eroded by disaster
The chasms had breathed in
the sweat of strange men
(at one point she stopped counting)
who spoke
in noises & gurgles; incomprehensive
her...
But I don’t want to live in Colorado, she says,
we’ve been on the phone
for two hours
and she tells me this now.
Why, I ask,
and she tells me about her rule,
it’s something in the name,
she...
Wrap it with a question mark;
it speaks for itself
it confuses itself
it twists and curves and dives into uncertainty,
ends it all with a period
a dot
a mark of finality,
as if to suggest
that...
Dear reader,
It was a tattered Coffee-Bean receipt abandoned on a Monday,
how the flier, painted in the familiar hues of uncaring footsteps, gently rode the Thursday breeze.
It was the way a Saturday...
Sleeping Beauty
Five years ago, the pills had chased away the voices,
the noises, that kept twirling drunk, then bouncing off the walls;
feeding on the brightness of her sleepless nights,
bloodshot...
