A million trees repeat themselves. The dark, the heat and stagnant air nod a hundred heads in seats to sleep. Stops at all the Circle K’s. This one stays still and sound, head down. Blinding glints of grey-white sky flash from bog-patches like shattered glass in an underpass. He’s undisturbed for hours. Trucks pass, gears [...]

Painting of Two Cowboys

Consider these men on horseback mounting a golden ridge in which everything is perfectly composed, the anatomy of their stallions exactly correct and the oil-white clouds just so. September sunlight combs their excellent beards. They’ve rolled the most exquisite cigarettes — they smoke to die on their terms, remind themselves of fathers. It’s hard to [...]

a hitchcock blonde

You leaned into the window watching the sun set, mottled cloud and your legs reflected in the purple vase. They looked a little wider there, weirder in that argument of curves. A trick of the light. Nobody noticed, but that serious glance happened anyway. “It’s just everything.” But that’s how these problems get solved, running. [...]

hello friends

scanner trubble but please enjoy some small collages (and scowly faces) that i made for you anyway.

fine

An acceptable night for the grinders of teeth, asleep with women’s scarves around them— their open windows ushering the middling breeze, which is a little damp and stirs the decent perfume about their necks; the cars’ sly leaving tune just before the knowing dawn; whatever they argue about in rowhouses. Whatever comes in the brilliant [...]

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