sometimes, she likes to sit still.
dazzled
Dusk fell quickly, as it usually did in autumn
simple
everyone tells her this is going to be a simple way to do things: they tell her she has to shut off the technology that thrums under her fingers and it will bring relief.
the fixer-upper
remove the curtains from the windows, scrub the glass until it turns to diamond .
when in paris
when in paris, i wandered aimlessly down a random street.
the kitchen
the kitchen is out of order, off-kilter. the benchtop is narrow, evenly-matched,
the guardian
the guardian waits outside the door,pacing to and fro.it's deep winter and there is iceon every foot of the fence.the gates are frozen stiff,locked with clumped ice over thekeyhole. the chain behind the gate issolid, immobile with the denselayer of ice. the guardian has been outin the coldfor several years now.it is the way theyprefer …
electrical storm
the world is supposed to be noisy, she knows this. knows it in the way rain patters over the roof and the ocean.
The Painter
It's become habit, buying new glassware every so often.
The Light Tree
In the middle of town, there's a tree with a string of lights wrapped around it; Christmas lights, from the looks of it.
