Swimmer’s feet kick off from rock’s end into new shallows in-between of suspension heart buoyed up by succession of events as lived in our 30s a new clarity happens with each turn of calendar, as with erosion, distillation, settling of silt onto river beds and ocean floors I wade with purpose until I can onlyContinue reading “Interstice”
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Revelation
Bristling black, oil green on black the carnivorous head bent with pinball eyes jerking, glaze of glass The beast hovers, hobbles with an ancient gait, giant from continual dreaming, smothers everything in sight of window. Anxieties brew from the underside up — coaxed into skin and liver, bred into flight from the brain, on theContinue reading “Revelation”
Consumed
A note slipped into the lining of a cheap purse sewn by deadweight hands, machines resounding the automation of life between four walls no one else will know how far away, how inmates in the Yingshan Prison in Guangxi, China are working 14 hours daily with no break/rest at noon and black faux-leather becoming anContinue reading “Consumed”
mabel lee 