March 2012
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If..else.
putridity:
If, iffy. If you look hard enough, I am writhing out of absence into form. If introduces a condition, a supposition (eg. “If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.”) If can sometimes create ambiguities. If I were called out of a pool of dark by a larger hunger like birds plucking worms from the earth. If I were lost in a poem; not killing, not a thief,...
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Unmade Bed
I have become a foreigner in my own home, padding past an unmade bed someone else had slept on, then examining things I used to think I needed. In the living room, I observe the inert body of my father on the sofa as if from behind a velvet rope, fascinated by his stillness; not dead, yet not quite alive. Next, I scrutinise the hallway as if I am standing at the scene of a crime, except...