stale urine
leaf light
a baroque quintet
from conspicuous speakers
at 7/11.
shucked feet
plucked feathers
an internal dialogue
between delineations of
haunt vs haunted.
rusty sclera
immutable gravel -
"time heals all wounds"
& the rest
of the feel good adages
are complete horseshit.
a fluorescent full moon guided {us} quilted moths. gravel crunched, nails clicked. where the wall meets the sidewalk leaked the giggle of a shared secret. we've encrypted these moments like the finger
a quip - the last of the rarest jokes on earth like snowfall > April showers - befell. We shared this moment the way two people watch a performance of King Lear.
it's a hard thing, this lucid living: sitting on a donated couch in an already-sold house with someone whose grave I had just visited. "but I've been to your grave," the words unspun from tangled teet