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Fleet finds the wood and moor in a long bay. They lower boats while keeping glass on shore. Rowing men joke how they can hear treasure calling from a thicket along the slope. Not far from the ship a dense fog converges on the boats from both sides. Shore disappears in an instant along with the faces…
Of Mr. and Mrs.
A couple sips at a table in front tall street facing windows, a tension hotter than the steam swirls between them. The occasional reflection of passing cars is a game of pong across their faces. Both easy on razor cliffs, any disturbance could cause a sudden plummet. They wait, for what neither is sure…
Stooped
His eyes lift from the pavement, separation dissolved, he feels the whole city before him as a single life form moving as one. The dirt on his sneakers matches the dirt of the sidewalk and the dirt of his stoop where his life connects to the rest of the world…
Lethal Kini
She walks with sandals on her feet and little else. Sunshine amusement, flesh painted by strokes of warmth. Take up an oak for a smoke, limb relaxed elevation doubled.
Here comes a young couple with a question…
The Morgue can be a Potent Place
The Keeper looks up from his desk at a flicker of lights.
“Spirits grifting the flux, even death can’t take them off the grid. I can’t complain, when I kick it rest assured I’ll be back to give my old lady a scare or two. When she falls down the stairs, it’ll be I who pushed her.”
Just as his gaze returns to the desk there’s a pull at the door.
Letters of Measure 