we gypsum boarded the plane laughing like the hooligans we were as stewardesses prepared for a sea adventure in the sky pinch the butt of your lit cigarette girlfriend or you’ll get pushed off into smog clouds I walked through the aisle barrier into first class immediately everyone looked away and held their breath what…
To wake is to rise from the glue pool–it requires overcoming the pull of sinking into the kitchen for breakfast dishes; these, often left unwashed the night before. For minutes after standing the glue mask still clings to the body, dripping. Consumption of caffeinated water accelerates glue decomposition; this can be accomplished even before understanding…
Descending a slope of modest decline, I observed my feet tumbling ahead upon the frozen ground. I judged my pedestrian display to be of fine form, the cartwheeling whorl of shin, knee, and foot spinning smoothly along the ice and snow. When, eventually, I stood asleep at rest and level, I spied on one stagnant…
My daughter, Daisy, has folded flower petals into bullets. “For origami class in school today,” she says, adding, “I prefer petals to paper.” They lay before her on the table; supple, halcyon growths, plucked and delicately arranged into symbols of violence, proudly displayed for my inspection. Pink ones, blue, and bright yellow, their colors recall…