day little death in the east hidden behind sleet-snow curtains
Author Archives: Pearl
breaktime, lunchroom
M-mm, steaming water tea-stained cup before the bag dunk scented as if steeped better one on rack?
haikueque
counting beat constrain away from supercali- fragile liscious …is —
Your photo will be taken
your photo will be taken in the grey government waiting room of stifled coughs, not even a cream-faced clock to encourage conversation’s spark. wincing squawk of bottoms shift on black vinyl seats, watch the numbers A119, C257, A220, A221, A222, C258, A223 as yours draws near they throw in a F103 to make it clear […]
laid on the table bare
fingers sink into warmed butter of skin back soft as lips were, before the needy pressing of whey of way of curdling bit-back gasps, the tremor of body remembering coming into itself through another when holy shrouds and fogs fell away and there was nakedness in the pupils bedroom eyes giving way to anywhere but […]