In times like these, the weariness is passing into something like resignation, which I keep insisting is acceptance. And you, who know me or don’t know me or find here some circumstance that perhaps coincides with a moment or your lifetime, are not sure how either of us ended here. The plan falls flat like [...]
Categories: explanations and things left unsaid
You see, my fish died this morning. Some time between when I went to bed and when I got up. He had been sick, and I knew it was coming, but that doesn’t change having to deal with a dead fish before work. And I’m sure, somewhere in this, is a profound statement about watching [...]
Categories: Koji, explanations and things left unsaid
If you were here (or I were there), I would tell you I love you. This profound wave of the unconditional that I can neither explain nor support. I love the fact of your existence and that love becomes a joyful tracing of movement. The way you lean a skateboard back and forth down the [...]
Categories: explanations and things left unsaid
She cannot admit that she misses him. It would perforate her larynx and puncture his inner ear. She is frustrated with the weight of phrases that should be light and uttered often. She wishes there were other words with the shape of this gap and the shade of this affection. Her tongue is ossifying [...]
Categories: explanations and things left unsaid, out of joint
You once asked me about all the things I should say. Everything I wanted to say but wouldn’t. Because the phrases meant nothing or something or anything. I’ll say one thing now: I loved the you that wasn’t really you. My larynx crumbled under the shift of your tectonic tongue.
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I promised we were done. We [...]
Categories: Postcards, explanations and things left unsaid
