Sometimes I dream fondly of those wilting greens; the idyllic winter months I spent estranged from the city, steaming asparagus and braising apples.

In my apperception, I extended the length of my selfishness; until I can be consciously aware at how the tether snaps back like an elastic band. My choices an azure, vitreous jar, within it, my heart suspended in a vitriolic solution ( Read more... )

He caught us in an unusual moment of levity: lounging on ledges, pretending to be cats. For all our years and life experiences, we play innocent games ( Read more... )

My roulette partner is a quiet, French movie about obsession; calling me to claim non-alliance to anyone but no one. I sit on the stairs of the roof to catch the calls. It doesn't matter yet means everything ( Read more... )

Our friends, the old alliances, are sektenähnlich, cult-like, grappling hooks and Meleager and I have, metaphorically, "left the church." I live in (selective) isolation with joy and secret brilliance. With sardonic amusement we contemplate who we will see about our day and what trite talk they might attempt to make with us. I feel close to no ( Read more... )

I spoke her like a secret mantra, a word that came to the forefront without explanation ( Read more... )

I was in her district when I fell under her jurisdiction. He crossed the walk to avoid me and I felt her; assured in her fire. A pure burn, isolated from all external factors ( Read more... )

I've been examining the surface for cracks, waiting for a window to open where I could assert my will. Things are dubious and confusing over fiber-optic terminals, requiring intuition and a good guess. And I've been wrong before ( Read more... )

It's hidden, here, your nature. Between the spaces of letters. Between the context changes. How you can re-arrange and swap the alpha-sigils to create chaos. (Even "Chaos" contains a different meaning in Laotian when the places of two letters are interchanged ( Read more... )

Are you still rebelling against your culture? A scroll of unknown rituals existing in a world whose entrance I am forbidden. A wedge you always claim to others be our irreconcilable difference. The slight shim that makes you miserable ( Read more... )