Pavements
Every year came the day when the uncles with peuce faces took off their jackets. When the aunts’ pink slip straps slipped down their plump arms. When the flying ants…
Kickboxer
Just back from his first professional fight he flicked through the book of tattoos and said he’d taken a kicking but made enough money to last the month. The crowd…
Morning Again • Remembrance
Morning Again The alarm blares through the air. It is morning again. There is a shattering ruining the stillness. A cut wounding the silence. The sky peels open slowly, blue-veined,…
inheriting silence in three acts • i lied when i said i was working late • the kitchen gospel
inheriting silence in three actsI. the light hiccups down the sidewalk— pale, ill. cicadas scream, the cars shriek. girls line the opposite wall, shaped like questions I’ve never dared to…
Cloudberry
Cloudberries grow wild in the arctic north, they can’t be cultivated by farmstead.To produce a berry, the female must be pollinated by a male who has happened to grow nearby.It…
A Quiet Korean • Apothecary Aesthetics Busan, Korea
A QUIET KOREANSouth Korean man falls in love with North Korean songstress.He’s fiftyish. Going on sixty. And lonely in Myanmar. Burma. Whatever.She’s angelic. Her beauty ageless.He gifts her cash, flowers,…
Black on Sorbet • The Enigma
Black on sorbet: three hair vignettesfor SarnieI In the morning, my friend at the poetry workshop saysthat the black of my hair against the maroon of my pullover looks striking. I think…