WHEN LYING WAS IN VOGUE Even laughter was a lie. Even sadness. The way highways stretched beyond the next curve with their markers every tenth of a mile & their exit signs promising fuel & coffee, the possibility of a bed with its vague suggestion of desire. Nothing so tawdry. It was winter. Snow didn’t […]
Shazia Hafiz Ramji | PRISM INDEX
PRISIM INDEX He turns and it is 11 o’clock, face pulled into light’s straight tail boastful of time the slaves it illumines. Of us, smiles; beacons somewhere in a forest, a satellite swings its arms cupped and wide, hugging you a path made for you, the prisms that index spines. I thumb through your […]
Simon Perchik | *
* Side by side a planet that has no star you wander for years which means remorse has taken hold the way this dried love note never lets go its warmth though the afternoon becomes a place for constellations, is wobbling as silence and the end —where else can it hide is more forgiving than […]