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Coffee and Books
Hello local friends, just wanted to let you know that my last book, Object Permanence, is now for sale at the awesome Allgood Coffee in Weaverville, NC, just north of Asheville. It’s hard for me to do any kind of self-promotion, so going in and talking to them about it was a pretty huge step.…
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Time Travel.
We made psychedelic candy in my grandma’s muffin tins and I drank chocolate-flavored liquor from a teacup from a set I got for Christmas from a friend that I lost somewhere in the rubble of the past and I found words again my fingers, lit the buzz before the thunder You took a picture of…
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Four/20
The faucet’s dripping again. There’s glitter on my eyes and in my hair Four years and twenty days ago you dropped your smile at my feet and left it there for me to find, your skin burned holes into my life and I bled ink into yours, marked we shared a glass, tasted where we…
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Solenopsis Invicta
I got bitten by a fire ant last weekend, for the first time in forever, and it reminded me of this tiny little thing I wrote nearly three years ago. It makes sense to me, anyway. We lay tangled each breath a taste of something like a wish and in the cold we built forever…
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Left.
These are the things you will leave behind: a quickly-penned grocery list shampoo tomato sauce lemon juice eggs A prom picture, roughly halved the other piece tossed aside with your virginity burnt, perhaps in some post-adolescent fit of Pagan forgetting rituals unsuccessful, of course but effective nonetheless A crayon, carnation blue her favorite and she…
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Remembering Dot, Again and Always
Days like this I remember letters in tiny boxes careful pen strokes never crossing the lines Fat red apple jar filled with chocolate sandwich cookies The light on the back porch sun breathing its life into us I was so much older than she, sometimes still the infant on her lap She made me laugh,…
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1372.
The first time I saw you, I smiled at the strangeness of you I still do, every day.
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Missing Man in Austin, TX May Be in Danger
Johnathon Falck is missing again. A little over a month ago, I posted about his disappearance; he was subsequently found in a hospital, where he was given medication for his mental illnesses and sent back out to fend for himself. Since then, his thoughts and communications have been increasingly disordered, he has stopped taking his…