Category Archives: lotus eaters

about people who are not facing the here and now, but have to be there and then on cell phones and ipods

behind the barn

nicotine stains on the rain-grayed barn-boards condom hidden behind a loose plank pranks of growing, we often chuckled kids will be kids: and we gave them a spank then they grew up and they watched their children organized everything sponsored … Continue reading

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Party

He shakes his silvered head like an old stallion comprehending little but oats and sugar cubes. Gaiety surges around tables: white water roaring past giant solitary boulders. Servers bring salads, cheeses lasagnas, chicken, roast boar— tastebuds decline, overwhelmed. A tango … Continue reading

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keyhole

somebody must have found the little album of snaps one print per page photos taken that summer so long ago flip through past pixillated sun-stained scenes from an afternoon so slender he so young she that beard before they before … Continue reading

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