So many substitutions in this story: stepmother for mother, brother for father, morsels of muffin for little white stones, and once the oven is hot, witch for boy, and in earlier locations, Gretel for pearl, girl for teeth, take my thumbs for chicken bones, grandma, take my babies for wolf meat. I’d give […]
Begin with the equation: wood = bone. If bone, a rib splintered, branch in fragments. Fabricate from these pieces, the parts for a miniature ship —delicately assemble her through the narrow neck of an oblong bottle (if glass, then skin) to be corked and kept. From bone, bone; skin, skin. This is the beginning, […]
We made fun of him when he was young and we made fun of him when he was old It’s because he was so beautiful when he was young interestingly enough, beautiful when he was old, too I am not talking about an inanimate object. For example, this candlestick here. The wick […]
It was that minute in the elevator, that moment when we careened through floors with only a gap of words between us. It was then that I knew the way we watched each other would have to end. It would have to be untangled, like a skein, a section at a time until we could […]
Before the endless cups of black coffee, you dreamed one night of a plump man the shape of a pear hanging above your bed screwing on a golden penis. “It wasn’t the fact that it was gold that made me wake up in tears it was the fact he was turning it to the left […]
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