for l.c. The thunder cracked and the time On the red face of the clock fell away and the wild outdoors pulled everyone inside gasping for air and flowing with water– so we sat in a smelly corner with hard seats and stared through the darkness without finding a single face, and tried to keep [...]
for j.t. Some know how the grass grows green and the angle a hawk flies through the sky — blue for a textbook reason, where the sun burns to specification even when it rains. Some know how the sky glows orange on humid nights, or how a star can shine behind the moon, or how [...]
for s.a.l. Champagne teasing through the static crowd gently holding glasses on plates of chicken barbecue under the nametags slapped in the left corner of their chests as “Jane Redman” stares at “Mark” who looks everywhere but at her, as “Jeffrey” glances down the street outside at his house with only black windows and “Jack [...]
for a.s. The rain slid down from humid skies, and fell in graying drone Rapping on the garden walk And chilling through his bones. He shoveled all the walkways clean And piled all the rain In heaps, along the garden paths, Ignoring how it drained– He pulled his thick wool jacket off And laid it [...]
to t.t.l. I listen to the pounding of the night temple drums the ever beating waiting for the morning’s rising something subtle buried deep below the thinker and roaming drifting high above the thought. I listen to the answer of a thousand thousand questions, the pulsing heartbeats in the treelines black on sky, the words [...]