inching toward. circling back. “nothing but the beginning of terror.” write it. the dreaded event. // made up solely of corners. persistent thoughts, impulses, or images. “there remains.” amputated fingers. lined up and held in place.

Droving to bananas // Beryl-spangled / Golden-naped // Dogs guarding the pack against hubcap / A butterfly house

"There awakes a slight man with his hind legs kicking at the foot of a marble bust. It is the bust of a long ago morning, chiseled in the form of a deformed and feverish boy. The eyes are made of mist and prophecy and in them is reflected a father's beasts of fancy, howling and pacing at their own discretion."

A woman puzzles over a hillside until even a wood poppy begins to resemble her fundamental helplessness.