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When Greg ran electrical wire through the walls he never imagined the despondency a place could come to know. A paltry collection plate. Purple stains blearing the cement floors. The worshippers–a meager constituency– casting the ballots of their prayers. How the halls once rang with the hard freight of their voices. A trip to Africa, […]

A Pair “Might be hard to fit those things on your feet when you’re dead. You better just wear them all the time so they don’t have to put them back on you when your feet swell up.”                         [laughter] “Katie will just grease up my feet and slide them on.” “Hey Katie, he wants

With A Garland Forlorn rest within something          so sweet and so clear          take what is tender and healing          bind it with a garland forlorn          a pity          that you used to long for the ones who came before you to have          before you longed for them not to be there at all          what has come now

The night the power went out, no one in the neighborhood noticed at first except Ji-ho, because he’d been watching a livestream of a man tattooing his own forehead in real time. When the screen blinked off, he just sat there for a second, blinking too, the dark folding in around him like it had

When the sapling is born it is unable to utter any words. They have no voice, but they do have the ability to listen. Minute by minute, day by day they hear and try to replicate the song. The song that was heard since they were born, the song that was sung since the beginning

after Film Noir 101: The 101 Best Film Noir Posters from the 1940s – 1950s, Mark Fertig (Fantagraphics, 2014) #98 Somewhere in the Night The hand to the gate, steel; the lips to the mouth, red; the coat to the dress, red; the hat to the head, black; the gun to the hand and the

I can’t call home anymore / leave your message after the beep I memorized the number in kindergarten The number to the kitchen wall phone with the twisted cord Remember this number so you can always call mom or dad if you need them My thumbs still recall the rhythm to dial home with such

Desire wraps around thin shoulders chilled with light An envelope of protection warms daylight Ocean on skin akin to laying on of hands I shelter in place return to felt familiar poverty An envelope of protection warms daylight Between us thought replaces speech I shelter in place return to felt familiar poverty Mental models rinse

It’s funny, I’ve got this pain in the back of my mouth where my wisdom teeth were, and only since the surgery can I recognize that as the area where love goes first when it leaves the trappings of the heart. She was the one who told me this, it was there bubbling for her