Tag: time

before the stone had splintered the 
skull, I knew I’d gone too far. I 
adore these tiny flowers, but 
no one owns them, and then the great 
detective, all those fine speeches, 

reversals, triple meanings. No 
wonder most only stand and wait 
by the fire gulping down amber 
Then in a moment it’s resolved 

and all that tension as the speech 
slowly built its trap and found its 
treasure as it ever did and 

then tea and cakes and time and in 
some time, time, flowers, a stone, and

December 16, 2025

cakes, detective, flowers, skull, speech, stone, tea, tension, time

One section of Fragment, an upcoming work.

for you they reluctantly offer a handful of change and assume your bones are their bones but that time is running out or so we have foretold in our heated meetings behind the Dairy Queen scooping frozen sweetness from a disposable cup while we smirk and cheer ourselves on in plans that don’t have a Y’s chance in an X’s Z to come to anything but sometimes the planning is enough sometimes that’s where you find out who your true co-conspirators are and who the moles might be of course we’ve never actually skinned one as our newsletter heavily implies

October 27, 2023

bones, conspirator, dairy queen, fragment, mole, newsletter, plan, time
my burning eyes how do I escape from
I and all this time in circles
not wanting to make punchlines or
origami and the balloon
losing air we could have put to some use

January 27, 2023

air, balloon, circles, escape, eyes, origami, punchlines, time
with time running out and the clasp broken the last thing the mortuary students needed was this extended commentary on the subtext of that smirk

April 18, 2022

clasp, commentary, smirk, student, time
My device displays the estimated time it will take to finish this chapter 29 minutes to 32 to 43 minutes a minute later. I see the children of my children’s children and the joy on their faces as they finish the prologue.

Saturn at dawn on the wind could be my voice as a child

May 30, 2021

children, device, prologue, Saturn, time, voice
spent my days traveling time and the mockingbird

June 24, 2012

mockingbird, time, travel