Monthly Archives: October 2012

Kneel

Listen, listen. Ear to the door and you can hear the heavy bass and slow, nearly-non-existant drums of something Top 40 Generic; she plays it while she lays on the floor and looks for galaxies in the texture of the … Continue reading

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I was dreaming…

And within the barren fields of Winter, there was, among the grass gone brown from the cold, from the dying sun, a line of trees that stood against the horizon. Tall and thick-limbed, overgrown with gnarls and twists, and they … Continue reading

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Distance

Resignation. Such an indelicate word for the most fragile of moments. It speaks of surrender and acceptance, of diminishing and death. In some ways, it is fitting — and in some, not at all. He has always been a ghost … Continue reading

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Friends Don't Let Friends Play Word Association

It is a haunting thing, these shadows that search and spasm, the darkness of it overwhelming, overthrowing, over and over until it’s a tumbledown mess of madness, where the crawling flies lay eggs of wonder and as I reach up … Continue reading

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Friends Don’t Let Friends Play Word Association

It is a haunting thing, these shadows that search and spasm, the darkness of it overwhelming, overthrowing, over and over until it’s a tumbledown mess of madness, where the crawling flies lay eggs of wonder and as I reach up … Continue reading

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