Category: Novel X

DAYS 68, 69, 70, 71, 72 (August 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd 2018) WORSHIP IN THE HOUSE OF A— (first of many drafts) Damn her congenital restlessness. She searc...

DAYS 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67 (August 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th 2018) WORD (first of many drafts) In nature we find our tidings. Find your less...

DAYS 57, 58, 59, 60 (August 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th 2018) WILDFLOWERS (thirdish draft) A peasant boy gathers wildflowers for a girl—now a ghost of a girl—he once sa...

DAYS 55, 56 (August 5th, 6th 2018) NATURE (unfinished) People don’t remember the way it used to be. The yardstick of nature is only a foot now. TO WALK (u...

DAY 54 (August 4th, 2018) A COMPANY OF ANGELS (unfinished) Provisionless— armed only with my heart’s calling, faltering in a narrow corridor between the b...

DAYS 52, 53 (August 2nd, 3rd 2018) I SAW YOU IN A PAINTING (unfinished) I saw you in a painting— under a bone black sky. Behind lemon yellow windows, souls, lik...

DAYS 48, 49, 50, 51 (July 29th, 30th, 31st, August 1st, 2018) HALF-THOUGHTS (unfinished) They march like grim-faced soldiers from the front ragged, exhausted, h...

DAYS 46, 47 (July 27th, 28th, 2018) SERPENT SUN (unfinished) The serpent sun of bronze, warlike man breathes fire in his fingers, fire on his wings, fire in his...

DAYS 44, 45 (July 25th, 26th, 2018) SUMMER AFTERNOON (fragments) I catch her breath like a hawk upon a pendulous breeze— untrammeled by shame— by an albatross o...

DAYS 40, 41, 42, 43 (July 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th 2018) LABORERS (fragments) One day you’ll walk like her— like a broken marionette. A subtle distance in years d...