Posted in Poetry on Sep 25th, 2004 No Comments »
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Falling
Stationary
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Here
Toward
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Center
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Balance
Order
Posted in Stories on Sep 24th, 2004 No Comments »
From deep in her belly, she felt an awareness of light growing. It glowed, like a radioactive alien-human hybrid fetus, attached to her coccyx with a placenta of wires and sockets, and fed off her nervous system’s potential energy with the voracious appetite of a tapeworm.
Moera ran her hand over the scar three inches below [...]
Posted in Stories on Sep 20th, 2004 No Comments »
She cradles me in arms of aluminum and silicon, and, though I know she is mute and unfeeling and not even female, I feel loved by her. The hum of gears and fans beneath her hard, sculpted shell and gentle hiss and tick of memory access are as the gentle whisperings of a lover. Her [...]
Posted in Poetry on Sep 12th, 2004 No Comments »
Two nine
Four eight one
one six six four one
one three six three six one six one
one nine three six nine three six one three six one
one zero
nine
one two
seven
nine
one
four eight
one two
three
two nine
one one
two
Posted in Stories on Sep 10th, 2004 No Comments »
Frigga, fingers tangled in the thread of time, said to Thor, who sat on the floor bashing his hammer against the leg of his mother’s rocking chair, “Thor, my dear, please do stop vexing me so!” Thunder echoed in the distance. Wodin sat at the window, gazing at the wisps of cloud draping their cloak [...]
Posted in Poetry on Sep 8th, 2004 No Comments »
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Posted in Stories on Sep 8th, 2004 No Comments »
Feet firmly planted on a shifting plank, which is neither sinking nor floating in mud that is constantly replenished with rain at a rate equal to the rate at which the water evaporates, a cross-dressing hermaphrodite balances in one hand a plate of red sauce with pesto sauce that has a sauce of white sauce [...]
Posted in Poetry on Sep 7th, 2004 No Comments »
ice breeze caresses
bare legs in full run on stone
goddam it’s early
Posted in Stories on Sep 7th, 2004 No Comments »
Long ago, in the time before time (not that time, the other time), there was a great beast who slaved beneath the firm but benevolent dictatorship of gravity, time, space, and a landlord whose favorite pastime was gloating about his recent scuba adventures in the tropics.
With its billion-eyed gaze and trillion-tentacled hands, the beast toiled [...]