Many were the devices of Redentor Herrero Gueres, Funcionario Official del Patrimonico de la Nacion. Fish-tender. Responsible, completamente, for the feeding and the well-being of all the fishes in all the tanks upon the grounds and precincts of …
Flag Stop
The sun was high, the sky was clear, and things were slow at Froame depot. Nevertheless, Chick Curry sat at his desk, upright and alert. There was a local freight due, and he would soon have to tend to the …
The Gray Chrysler (verse)
In the 1980s a gray late-forties Chrysler sedan could often be seen cruising the streets of downtown Seattle. A gray-haired man in a broad-brimmed hat sat at the wheel, a gray-haired woman sat beside him. The couple had the appearance …
It
How in hell did you fuck up Jingle Bells? DashING through the snow…one-HORSE open sleigh! Everybodyknew that! But no: Across the street a man in a cowboy hat sat on a wheeled throne hammering an electric guitar and in an …
Detachable Legs
People are squalid creatures. We live in microscopic filth and dead skin and nail shavings and tiny flecks of excrement and flatulent stinks and nose dribblings and vicious effluvia. Think of what lies on a bus seat: particles of human …
Silhouette of a Young Man
Light was the Trickster
What else but?
Worked his wily wiles on man and beast, plant and mineral, land and sea and sky
Light is God
It was the smoke time, September, hot orange haze from distant forest fires, God’s …
Silhouette of a Young Man
Light was the Trickster
What else but?
Worked his wily wiles on man and beast, plant and mineral, land and sea and sky
Light is God
It was the smoke time, September, hot orange haze from distant forest fires, God’s …
That Which Is Left Behind
Anymore, it pretty much came and went. Mostly went. Just as well. Desire in anybody over sixty was best kept quiet. There were other things to make a body happy. Still, it was nice when it did drop in, even …
Sic Transit
The banana segments resembled a fallen column. They lay on the plate in a neat line, as if recently toppled. Brandmeier stared at the pieces. Could the temple have been that far gone by 800? He put a segment in …
Bolero
Was it getting louder? He closed his eyes, focused his mind. Seemed like it was coming from one place then another, from far away and right below. How many others heard it, and where? He shook his head, gazed into …