what must they have believed about music to search for it there?
Category: epigrams and conundrums
In this new upside-down world
crops grow in the absence of sunlight, sexless and cold as an economist’s dream.
In the ideal interrogation room
the only shadows are kept like handkerchiefs in the pocket.
The sky of my childhood
was full of places to climb and sit.
She became the heroin
in a made-for-TV drama, cops busting down the door in the middle of the day.
Resolution
I must never forget how exhilarating it felt to find myself briefly at the head of a mob.
It’s hard to lay down a burden
once you’ve given it your own name.
Blue blood
belongs only to those with no need for veins, like a wanderlust that starts where the highway ends.
Winter is a protection racket
not unlike the skin disease once known as the king’s evil that could only be cured by a king’s touch.
These mountains
are full of hollows and riddled with mines: a geography of loss.
The way my skin cracks in winter
maybe I’ll molt.
Ask a vintner or a fromager:
few things are more festive than decay.
