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 […]
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Gelato Shop
Gelato Shop At this, the coldest of cold buffets, a man asks if there is any ice cream. The serving lady spreads her hands says it all is, looking as if she is trying not to look at him like the thicker than cream man she clearly thinks he is. He rephrases, Not sherbet? No […]
shorties
night suspends its tent, old moths-eaten sky a mile up, a world wide that farmlight too is gone, blinked out in the dip of road between hilllocks taking father’s key from where I know it’s hidden I let myself in do the dishes while waiting for his return stages told what to change into before […]
Forest Refuge
Forest Refuge Pass trunk to trunk your movements, a pulse of an organelle in the forest cell. The bars of the conifer grove denote home. The fibrous living welcome mats are beneath your feet, they reach for miles, tangling over and under themselves. They, up the twigs, are an extension of your own vascular system. […]
spring thaw
frozen strawberries set out in the A/C and sun grow Santa Claus beards