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In the morning, it's all I can do to stay awake to see my family away. This exhaustion is beyond physical or emotional, even neuronal. There's an existential deterioration that I need to address. As if the system of the universe has realized my program has run too long without a hard reboot. Now there's a timer counting down the seconds until ( Read more... )

Returning to something past, something that passed. There are breaks in the concrete, flashes of brightness. A brief blindness dwindles to reveal depth. Distance ( Read more... )

Leaving behind the shedding of sorrowful skin.


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Another series of appointments. They confirm what I feared: more cartilage deterioration. This time, in both knees and the right foot. Three new sites on the map of my body flagged for erosion. Future regions of perpetual shadow. Eventually, the cloudy structure of interstitial material will disappear, only to be filled with pain and darkness ( Read more... )

A solemn summer day. Gorgeous, beautiful, ideal. Yet, I was sobbing under the sun. Everything outside of my skull--the blossoming trees, the wildlife lazily milling around, the stillness of lakes, the welcoming boardwalks--was paradisaical ( Read more... )

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The stability of two towers, connected, untouched and facing opposite directions. The stability of a singular conduit spreading across the ages and years and decades and memories and breaks.


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Power breakers. Two conduits, closer than the day before.


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From the fractures above, the continual internal rainfall. For the future, an accumulation of incremental change. Unfinished, tear-stained, dredging memories sunken down two decades in the past. It's one of those nights.


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