Fits & Starts

What scribbles out the sides, longing for a place to go…

while I’m busy with other things

743-C.TWOMBLY.

The sentences broke between them.  Not twisting or scrambling, no encrypted script noising up communication; more like letter parts and chunks of words crumbling away before they even bridged the gaps.  Sayings that collapsed on themselves as they emerged.

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At the point we begin imagining ourselves insane and institutionalized, conjuring car wrecks or dreaming deaths in the family to avoid our obligations…we are well-advised that something has gone wrong…

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Whenever what might be called an “encounter” occurred between them, everything else grew less pressing, less…significant or unsurvivable.  She became a solution and a re-solution all at one go…

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fragments, in other words.

The days have to be enough…they’re all we have.

3 thoughts on “Fits & Starts

  1. I am feeling squeezed out of being able to create these days, and my hope is that all of this non-creative activity is fodder-making for later… But hope is a restless state. Thank you for making words happen regardless.

"A word is a bridge thrown between myself and an other - a territory shared by both" - M. Bakhtin

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