I didn’t say I loved you but I did and also him, the one who stole away, with all my sacraments wrapped in his curling laugh, thief of my night. We find ourselves together, cobbling a mystery of fleshes
The squirrels deny themselves from front and back and only word into view from the sides when their outline rejects the coup of geometry. From the south we delight in the polar symmetry of their foggy tails cupped by rounded hinds.
The gentle tremor that has begun now in my left hand, between thumb and forefinger, is not history. Its seed lies buried deep in sleep, in the neurochemistry of sleep which traces its faint salt patterns on the stone of my soul. Stone of my...
From a block away in Los Angeles’s Chinatown, we can just barely make out a sound unlike any we’ve ever heard, as if from underwater—melancholy, dissonant, otherworldly music. It pulls us toward the corner of Broadway and Alpine, where an...
Of all American cities, New York is perhaps the most visually iconic. Even its public transportation is embedded in the national imagination, with arguably more people having seen the map of its subway system than maps of their own...
You know I’m actually not who I appeared to be kidding. I’m actually not sure this was my idea of a good time, not sure what’s exactly what in the glass elevator whose bellied window swerves your face away from your face. I’m actually not sure...
The Pizza Deck in Yosemite National Park sells beer for $30 a pitcher—a rip off in almost any situation, and I candidly told the bartender as much. Back at the tent site, my wife, brother, sister, and her boyfriend packed their gear in...
