September 2009
6 posts
“But if I can bear the nights, the days are a pleasure. I walk out; I see...”
– Annie Dillard, A Tinker at Pilgrim Creek
Governors on Sominex
It had been four days of no weather as if nature had conceded its genius to the indoors. They’d closed down the Bureau of Sad Endings and my wife sat on the couch and read the paper out loud. The evening edition carried the magic death of a child backlit by a construction site sunrise on its front page. I kept my back to her and fingered the items on the mantle. Souvenirs only reminded you...
August 2009
1 post
June 2009
1 post
“Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world.”
– Donald Barthelme