December 2008
5 posts
“The mutations of time are such, life and all that pertains to life so uncertain...”
– Judge Thomas W. Turley, August 17, 1864 (via Keep Feeling Fascination: “Keep Journals!”)
The Year of Time*
We were giving up time. We were giving up ties and everyone knew it, too.4 I turned round and there you go.13 You disappeared with the same speed11 we’re making up our history.5
I don’t remember getting here. It seems to be sometime next year.7 Sawed in half by the passage of time, halfway home from a window you see,10 The perfect hourglass of my loneliness.12
Is that you in...
Silver Lining
He unzipped his coat and sat down, setting his lunch out in front of him. He unfolded the newspaper and read “Workers Win.” Six thousand dollars each. Not bad but how many months would that last? Certainly not as long as it would take for most of them to find new jobs. “Win” seemed a little optimistic, he thought.
A few minutes later, he finished his coffee, packed up his...
