Author Archives: Pearl

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 […]

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 […]

in the night I am your jewel clasped tight in the setting of your limbs.

Time Accelerating (dedicated to Helena) My Monday and Friday with all of space in between, I feel the same as then, when presently, my mother, elbows on the table, was exclaiming “72? so young for the obituaries” and my click of tongue, so so old, more life than I can imagine, me 18 and it […]

mob violence, the eternal font turned read stain consciousness, flogs sink in, read and read unceasingly enclosed in the heat of heart smacking you about the inner ear lobes red with excited fear, smoke, dust motes yourself in the shaft of sunlight, all specks from black angel’s wings. Blink the breath of chest of cat […]