1471: Boston | Aaron Smith
"Boston"
Aaron Smith
I've been meaning to tell you how the sky is pink here sometimes like the roof of a mouth that's about to chomp down on the crooked steel teeth of the city, I remember the desperate things we did and that I stumble down sidewalks listening to the buzz of street lamps at dusk and the crush of leaves on the pavement, Without you here I'm viciously lonely and I can't remember the last time I felt holy, the last time I offered myself as sanctuary * I watched two men press hard into each other, their bodies caught in the club’s bass drum swell, and I couldn’t remember when I knew I’d never be beautiful, but it must have been quick and subtle, the way the holy ghost can pass in and out of a room. I want so desperately to be finished with desire, the rushing wind, the still small voice.
On this day in...
2011: "Marriage" by Lawrence Raab
2010: "The Poem I Didn't Write" by Raymond Carver
2009: "Do not underestimate the power of Playstation" by James Sinclair
2008: "Tableau” by Judith Wright
she felt-/because she was certain-her life would change /if she picked up the phone, said hello, /said, I was just thinking/of you.
Aaron Smith
I've been meaning to tell you how the sky is pink here sometimes like the roof of a mouth that's about to chomp down on the crooked steel teeth of the city, I remember the desperate things we did and that I stumble down sidewalks listening to the buzz of street lamps at dusk and the crush of leaves on the pavement, Without you here I'm viciously lonely and I can't remember the last time I felt holy, the last time I offered myself as sanctuary * I watched two men press hard into each other, their bodies caught in the club’s bass drum swell, and I couldn’t remember when I knew I’d never be beautiful, but it must have been quick and subtle, the way the holy ghost can pass in and out of a room. I want so desperately to be finished with desire, the rushing wind, the still small voice.
On this day in...
2011: "Marriage" by Lawrence Raab
2010: "The Poem I Didn't Write" by Raymond Carver
2009: "Do not underestimate the power of Playstation" by James Sinclair
2008: "Tableau” by Judith Wright
she felt-/because she was certain-her life would change /if she picked up the phone, said hello, /said, I was just thinking/of you.