Category Archives: memories

The Letters

Dearest M,
Today your letter, whatever version, found me. Again hanging from some wretched cliff, the asses and mules all gone again, fallen or eaten maybe. Only I remained of our small band, though now my heart’s Sherpa who carries, along with your epistle, the red weight without the smallest flinch and how we will [...]

The Letters

My Dear Mr. Pink,
Last night’s escapades drove a bevel around my heart, the slope of which could rival La Dame Blanche.  While you shake ideals out like apples from a tree, my ideals are not easily shaken.  I have buried my face in such women before, such powder; I have watched men reach the peak, [...]

In these hours

It’s often in these hours when things reach us most deeply, maybe it’s not, maybe it’s time to talk about myself or perhaps I should just be writing in a journal, one of those salty old books that line the walls of this dark hold, sitting on rotting boards, rotting themselves in the humid air, [...]

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