Chest to chest froggied legs, I lift the bib to secure this mei tai. Tightening straps over my shoulders pulling her tighter still, her warmth penetrates with each knot I tie. Our external womb, origamied, as close as I can get her now. Feet suspended above the ground, we journey impatient and wriggling she’s ready. […]
Mid bus. “You two have a SOUL connection.†White clad, black marriage counsellor. Drunk atmosphere. Clean white, perfect suit, white, sparkly fedora. A cliché waiting for the 80’s to come back. Sandwiched between Teary girl and Angry man. ALL rich with alcohol. Scent of urine and bar. Intentional ignorance becomes common among the transit crowd. […]
Jazz costumes dangle from the limbs of a crab-apple tree. Fabric of deep indigo and mauve, black tassel belts and silk scarves, May-day ribbons that no children tangle. Below the branches a woman bent over her fence dressed to spread your fortune through a Tarot pattern. Her hands overlap in a Celtic Cross. She hums […]
The olfa butted against your palm unzips a length of carpet. Fibres crack against the steel: vertebrae snapping. Embedding the blade uncovers a memory: an eighth grade dissection, where a scalpel split a frog. But when you slit the belly of the rug, no coiled guts greet you, only the flat scent of clay: an […]
“we can’t come to the phone right now; please leave a message†all weekend, holed up like moles in their condos technocrats’ telephone voices taxed nerves, like fringed babushka shawls frayed even by so-called friends compelled to unload, seek solutions where none exist ride a bicycle to save the planet better to chill rest up […]
