The red lines that stripe my back speak. From the corners of their mouths a meandering ribbon of blood. They tell of rich detail beyond forgetting, of tapestries that fell like waterfalls from the ceiling, of strings of popcorn teeth turning the doorway into an instrument, of the lash, the lash my lover held.
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I spotted a crack in the logic of law but said nothing. I am not enough to accuse, I am not enough to dissent, but I am enough to break. But said nothing, but did something. It is enough, though it is not enough. Perhaps there is no such thing as “enough” but instead a [...]
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It is quite possible to love the moon, because the moon is so far away, illusive, a perfect sphere, a Form that flies at night. It deifies description. Throw away the telescopes, the moon whispers. And especially the rockets, it whispers. Throw them all away. It is also possible to love the earth, though the [...]
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He has nothing to say but that he has nothing to say. That is enough. He stares in a mirror and sees himself in his meat, the frailty of it, and imagines himself made of stainless steel, polished and gleaming, unable to move except via continuous explosions. He leaves and can’t remember quite what he [...]
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He lies in bed and the house is an unearthly quiet. Yesterday, a thousand rumbling axles per minute, but today he lies in bed and the house is an unearthly quiet. Planes one quarter whistled and three quarters roared overhead, loosening drywall screws bit by bit, making the walls crooked, but today he lies in [...]
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The gifts of God for the people of God. The long winter’s night passes and we feel the air beginning to warm. Passersby smile for the first time. A dog who is too young to know better barks at returning foliage. The nights are still cold though, but not bitterly so. Our skin which is [...]
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At some point the curve of the earth meets the straight line of your perspective. If you choose a higher horse, that line is simply farther away. This is a strange geometry. You stand on the shore of an infinity that resembles other, smaller infinities. This intuition was beaten out of you by petty schoolmasters, [...]
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i have forgotten how to speak them so I tear open my throat and the words come pumping out then when your horrified efforts have failed to stem the flood your delinquent fingers cannot hold on to even a few
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When, in our limitless optimism, we built monuments to a future that must surely be beyond… No-one imagined that our greatest minds would be building context-aware advertising and trying to deliver it to a watch. I drive a car to work every morning just like my father and his father and his father’s father. I [...]
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