CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
“I didn’t know you could be such and asshole,” she said, lighting up.
I was trying to pick my way through all these dirt roads circling through the woods. Cul de sacs, dead ends, washouts, whatever it was, they had it, sometimes in twos and threes. After a long silence, as [...]
No Way To Unzip
No way to unzip quietly
the teeth rip across
the permafrost of t.v.
broadcast on the bed,
your arms bent about the pillows,
cheeks relaxed in sleep.
Pains dispersed collect
and in love
darkness is the shield.
What a fool I am
when the hunger comes
to read your vital distillates.
I undress.
Words flock
across the brackish ways.
They stretch [...]
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