Stay
There is a verticality to certain people. They do not arrive; they occur. Like a seed with a blind, hard will, they find the microscopic fissure in the stone of my solitude—that wall I built with such careful, sterile architecture. They do not ask. To ask is to be outside, and they are already a pulse in the dark, damp chambers where I keep my silence. And then, the word. Stay. At first, it was a cold object, a heavy pebble in the mouth. Foreign. But now it has begun to dissolve, becoming a secretion of my own ribs, a … Continue reading Stay