Another Beginning

Chicago/February, 1980

What do I remember about that day? 

Julia crying in the kitchen. Alex hiding upstairs.

A tall, dark-haired man in Julia’s living room. Telling me, I’m your brother. You’re going to live with me now.

My own terror.

But when he smiled and held out his hand, all I knew was love.

 

 

Time

This slippery skin

her fingers slide off it

a doomed grip on the moment

screams into forever

its gorge yawning time

again and again and

again

The Empty Grave

You were gone
Not like you never were
but as if you were meant to 
be a part of

everything

Episode #999

 

I can’t climb out

the spiders in my wrists

stretch into my fingers

only a balled fist stops them

no one hears the clicking

but me

Guilt

 

I had no idea she said

nothing whispered through the water

just metal scraping

scratching disguised as

luck

 

Distance

Irregardless
him and I
the least of your
crimes
only you
no 

not only me
or projections maybe
a voice that scraped
words away
I am always gone longer
than I think

Dread

It was there, the blood
all the evidence anyone
could ever need
lower your eyes
look
but no
straight ahead 
yet again