entering a Moment words seem to gather the sense that they like children are no longer central to this conversation. They slip away to peer around corners at our making straight-backed make believe subjects, civility, sensible, ostensibly, sensibilllblillbly, pardonable giggled, gardenable, wha – what was I saying, the swung bar codes of my eyelashes, flashes […]
Author Archives: Pearl
walking until shoes squish
they fall together, rain and night both warm as mother’s kisses on crown protective, solid, grounded and safe people give themelves over to rain those that fear have already scurried their hard shells of umbrellas clamped swifter and harder than night, rain both amplified by the contrast of headlights. both change the pace of footsteps […]
anatomy of the new season
anatomy of the new season stepping from steam of bus to street my parotid lymph nodes are exposed, Uvula wracked, tract explodes with propelled load of cold-shocked air. using the diaphragm as a trampoline genuflected seeds of viral wheeze are aireborne, as summer bubbles atomized invisilbized, over rooftops. Tug, cover, my occidipal lymph nodes toque […]
after the door slams
hall mirrors face themselves full in the glass, expressionless as whisky, with not a voice to hoarse around ideas with, flashes of flurried colors passed uncaptured for future records to verify this the frame rocks with no hand to steady the swing. nailed pendulums can’t fall and break cyptic small hand of lead pencil rubs […]
bitter and turned cold
a dry rattle among raspberry canes rainsticks against grasses, air, a puff-laugh escaping thoughts, hairroots of hundred year elms motion quelled blink at the bleak wet-denim-black trunks shuddering stripped of leaves. spring blossoms are ludicrous naive hope yet poplar buds already have nubs swollen reddening nervous system molecularly jittering, tense, release, beneath snow crust, beneath […]