I was caught in the loops of a dream, walking through streets where paint flaked off the walls and buildings crumbledwith the memory of long monsoons. I entered a crowded bazaar. In my hands I held a shapeless parcel, battered,wrapped in dirty cloth. I could readLOVE on it in many languages. Each time carefully crossed…
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The Lotus Eaters
The endocrines are absorbed by the altered receptors of the brain.Therefore the rodents start to cuddle. It is deeper than the sea, even if it’s a rodent’s brain.Though all mystery can be measured. There’s nothing in the body a surgeon’s knife can’t find. The subjects I’ve observed don’t even notice the needle anymore.We’ve put them…
Bad Behaviour
It starts before your company holiday party, our first fancyinvitation on the fridge. You come in,with a thirty and a few snowflakeson your shoulder. I’m clappingunder my chin, in the kitchenby the ironing board. You kickthe door shut then twirlme to the counter where we crack beers, the iron hissing through teeth behind us then…
Lies We Believe About Ourselves
Adolescence wasn’t that big a dealit was the apocryphal apocalypsethe big bang that wasn’t It was the hot rush of hope and thelingering melancholy of schoolfingering everything that moves It was turning to my first love to saythe rest of my life is a long timeI don’t want to spend it with you William Breden…
Seek
1. I am a cold bitch but I’m hot as all get out. I shave everything and that means everything: no landing strip. You didn’t believe me and that was your loss. You unlock the car doors with a click and wait for me to rid you of my presence. On the way home you…
Living Under Water
You are very deep in an ocean. If you swimyou can live a full lifewhile drowning. You will get marriedto a bottlenose dolphinand wear a coral ring. You will give birthto yourself,but it will be so tinythat you lose itin the water. Your love will die firstand you will be alone.You are a brave little…
The Woman I Love
I can’t be certainBut I have a suspicionThat the woman I loveHas turned into a lizard.Last night in bedI brushed her thighAnd thought I feltA crinkled lizard’s hide.She had a crest instead of hair.A lizard’s tongue Darted from her mouth–It happened so quickly I barely spotted itBut I’m pretty sure it was there.I know it…
Blurring
“Blurring” was previously published in The Cathach Take off your coat.Let it fall from you.I want to watch you do that.I’ve been thinking of you too much.Now, I want to make you real.Do that and come here,Take off yourself and hang it on me.Fall from yourself and don’t think.Stop talking.To name this momentIs to sap…
Apocalypse Love Song
Through a hole in the roofI watched the end of the world.It was beautiful, nothing at allthe way its portrayed in books or movies. I thought of calling you, but figured you were busy taking a bath, filing your nails or dead, like most everyone else. I felt sad, remembering our encounter at the shoe…