Month: August 2021

His heels rasped the asphalt, and his  the curb. Another one bent before  the subway stairs to shit. That one I had seen bent over the rail to the new condo units, groaning.  Haven’t seen him since. There are many men, and some women, and they’ve become fixtures like the flowers that grow on bricks.…

I wonder, would they snatch you if you smiled? Ghosts are dogs that nose through the door and come wagging to the bedside, thumping things. Floating makes them cloddish, causes vertigo. They solicit the living to ground them, fill them, wisps to flesh again, to warm— and when they touch the limp hand on the…

One leg up. It’ll numb. The student defies Miss Applebaum because her name is Applebaum. It sounds funny and she leans  when she stands, like a drinking bird, except no hats inside. She docked Mooney for the snapback and now he slouches over the bubble sheet making a Seurat of the Math section. It’s only…