Author Archives: Pearl

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Numbers Just don’t stick in my head. Numbers trip in my head, tumble, collide, a tangled tango of 11 and crossed 7s. They jive but not well switching positions, shifting to cough-sobre, the suddenly self-conscious lines try to rebutton each other, blink up with near-confident smiles in a dishevelled, hastily reassembled, to presentable state, but […]

If I were given a 2H pencil and asked to sketch what I saw of you it would frustrate me to have to crosshatch to capture the shadows of your smooth face between the stubble of your chin and the arch below the apples of your cheeks. although I would be gentle with my lightest […]