Defying all classes of laws (natural or un) Two parallel lines intersected at the curing of a concrete floor. Tracked through the sultry balm of citrus groves, past rough-scaled slash pine and scrub, to opposing sameness—to two hands, and two eyes, and the adjacent impossibility of two worlds and walls within four walls, where today… Continue reading Curing
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Redolent Of
When the breeze catches just right I can smell the gardenias in the neighbor’s yard. A pretty fiction, with ivory blossoms in their full unfurl that smell like grace and bruise like egos. I suspect it would supersede accepted customs to clip a couple for my own. Or pitch a chair in closer proximity for… Continue reading Redolent Of
Signs of Life
If I simply soften and fade will an imprint of me remain, collecting tolls or delivering dinner platters in perpetuity. Will my neighbors say about me, “she seemed nice, but we didn’t know her much.” Will the sound of the television in the evenings continue to emanate from my apartment windows, and will the mail… Continue reading Signs of Life