Maybe the library was a god who died without my belief to sustain it—or, my belief plus my proximity because I’d always believed
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met you at your word
So I never spoke to the sea god again though I did journey through the water’s veil thrice more, once, blindly, to a raging ocean
play pretend
I had something nice in the city, nice enough I was grateful for the safety, the steady work, the food that didn’t poison me,
ascendant
around the twilight sun crackled a halo of lightning like tangled, glowing roots writhing for purchase in the unyielding sky.
how to kill a time lord
When the caricaurs went back to the lake the next dawn, I was so thirsty only the water concerned me. But they were hardly watching, just bringing me along like a pet or something, so when they set me down
money money
How much do you cost to be alive? Every drink a dollar bill, every bite more dollar bills, every shelter dollar bills, every trip more dollah bills, cellular fills sunken hills cost of pills, my life’s a time crunched jar of moments, grimy hands wipe me out, I grime my hands spending my time beggingContinue reading “money money”
brought up for war
Runabon grew too, and like her father she found herself a boy and was fine with it and the two of us drifted
savage
The village stranger loses her curiosity after a year or so, the adventurer learns the names of the log cabin dwellers
Back North
Hey Kid, it’s been a while since I’ve been back north. Have the daffodils sprung up yet in the flower beds? Have the magnolias bloomed? Are the puddles expanding outside the window, are your boots tall enough to stomp through them and stay dry up top? Hey Kid, I listened to a Raye song, andContinue reading “Back North”
clock/night watch
I watch the clock like a hawk, stressed for the alarm to blare; it doesn’t care that it scares away the mice in the nightmare nice but there in the sleep stare at least I don’t have to climb out of bed sleep-deprived and go to work for another greedy jerk to take credit forContinue reading “clock/night watch”
