short stuff
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leaving and staying and by staying leaving
Had to stop reading a (the?) biography of Clarice Lispector because, no matter how much I…
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an inevitable insubstantiality
Resist, resist, resist—what about the virtues of just going along? By “virtues” I mean “benefits;” there’s…
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may i speak here
It’s hard to say it matters so I keep typing and breathing anyway but isn’t that…
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without faltering for reason or commentary
The perfect autumn day—by evening, when my toes are cold despite socks and slippers, I might…
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dans le bureau
What are these people doing? How do they have that many clicks in them each day.…
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the moment’s eternally running stain
The bass was drowning out the highs, the saxophonist’s mic didn’t work, and for a minute…
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all that appeared was a blind obstinate impulse expressing itself in bursts of foolishness
Canceled my New Yorker subscription some months ago, as if that would help me feel less scatterbrained, once…
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better living through chemistry
At the Mexican place around the corner and the neighboring table’s food arrives and the cute…
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piece of a story called be both beautiful and camouflaged
I reach the steel staircase of the train station without realizing I’d left my spot on…
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sketch
This is what Oscar says, and it’ll be in the book. I sometimes wonder if the…
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concord
I worked in a suburban office compound building replete with floors and elevators and front deskmen…
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inordinacy
Falling into a diametrical opposite, into what is diametrically opposed to that out of which you’re trying to…
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on the train one day
Bearded young man, late twenties, early thirties, in a dark forest kind of green Marmot jacket…
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approach
Four hours later my flight came in on final to runway 9R all wild wobbly and…
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>
In my lesser moments I see wonderings like glass bubbles dangling just barely hanging by frayed…
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push
My second school was a school for smart kids where posted on all doors were little signs…
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how
My weekend? Great. Sure. I did nothing. Nope, nothing. Friday I left the office, went to the…
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believe her
From here, I hear, from my chair in the corner, too tired, I fear, to do…
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health
Why am I receiving Men’s Health magazine? This is now the fourth issue to arrive in…
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we time
Yes yes, going to be hanging out with you this weekend, chair and desk, desk and…
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decampment
You touched me Delphic and acute and then took it right back and I wondered if it was…
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just a thought
Balance now, yes, balance by default because that’s all that’s left. Followed by…? Well, what? Answer…
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dimension
On my couch tonight trying to feel her through the wish for full-blooded besidedness, feverish, imagining…
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nowhere, now here
Read books, I swear I have, real ones, quite a few, in fact. And I suspect I’ll…
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open
I’ll always be here for you, she says. When was she ever and what is this…
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again
Fuck you, 2015, year, you. You and your predecessors, most of them, some of them, a…
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missing
I know now. I now know. I know all about missing. I get it, after all…
