On Tomb Miniatures for Use in the Afterworld

Let’s make things miniature so we can die. so our tiny souls can use the tiny skillet and the tiny slaves may obey us, and the balance beam for routines, let’s make tiny shoes so we can die and be shod (The soul is small and hard to find.) Let us make tiny grenades and […]

New

I know it’s awful to say but the smell of the subway (the regular smell, not the smell of the subway when it’s 115 degrees) was immediately soothing. Immediately I knew where I was, who I was, and what I was about: The City. I walked into the Drama Book Store in Times Square, and […]

Bats

I liked the bat. It was a soul, a ghost, and it was welcome. I shouldn’t leave the door partly open. The cat wants to go in and out as she pleases, out to the balcony, up on her catwalk. I don’t have a screen door there. Screen doors are so bourgeoise. When I went […]

Order

Today is the day I sort. There is a day, maybe a week into my time off, that I must sort. I didn’t know today was the day. But then I walked past my bookcases of old journals and I knew I had to sort them. It seems like when they say pregnant women need […]