December 2009
3 posts
Okay, these pages, I read. And I read and I read and I read. It is raining, and it is cold. The woman looked across the room. The wind knocks the windows and I don’t know that they can hold. First winter, here. The rain, a low sound behind the hum of the small heater… But I’ve read, and looked out the window and all is dark save for that building pointed like a beacon - large...
Dec 11th
in the city
Every camel has its straw. But I am not a camel. The woman eyed him through the darkness of the unlit room. It had come upon them as they sat. Dusk, and the smoke & plume of incense.  Dusk and darkness and the distance from one chair to another, and from a woman to a man. We are all camels. The man eyed the box on the table beside the burning stick. Nag Champa. But was that the brand or the...
Dec 5th
“Off with their heads!”
– but it was only the Queen, and Alice was watching
Dec 2nd