The first time I saw Emily, she was stocking beer with a partner for United Beverage, in the same grocery store where I was doing a popcorn/peanut reset. She had on a green Notre Dame ringer t with yoga pants, dark, shiny, curly hair and a cheerful and friendly but easy disposition. It was like […]

The scroll has come in And I am not in charge As it apparently reads. . It’s funny,  Though, Because sometimes people Still act like I am.  . It’s the eyes of resentment, At my face as if it’s portraying knowing something, Having been to some chasm of truth And emerged as an altered state.  […]

I navigated the various individuals, repeatedly, who would come into work with bodies and eyes full of tension and struggle, like this everyday enterprise were a beguiling dragon to slay, for them, of sorts. Over and over, little bouts of conflict would occur, not over anything semantic or tactile in the spatial realm of the […]