In a driving rain Under an umbrella He kissed her hard. That was true. So is this: The umbrella, it was torn, Broken. Her shirt sleeve Soaked through, and The tender skin on her Inner arm turned cold, And clammy. The man’s lips did not know How to linger, and they did not Learn to, […]
Monthly Archives: October 2010
Owen stood on the train platform. He’d been waiting for nearly an hour. He’d watched as trains pulled in and out, as people reunited and bade each other farewell, as conductors joked with redcaps. He’d wandered through the stores in the station, had bought a magazine he’d probably never read, a glazed donut, and a […]
Mrs. McLanahan whispered secrets to cats: Alpha’s place secure about her leg, The others waiting, mewling, washing faces, Keeping eyes well trained on her, Doyenne of Number 9A, the rental Dark, and musty, and worse. Once I fed those cats. They Deigned to have me. Well, I had no special love for them. It was […]
I have cradled a dead body. Closed unseeing eyes. Shed my own hot tears on uncannily cool skin. Pulled a sheet up over freckled breasts, for modesty’s sake, even as I rued the ridiculousness of the gesture. Taken limp hands in my own. I have seen how life ebbs away, not in an instant but […]
