They rise like the bones of an old, drowned god—tilt slightly, whispering to the tide.Hunchbacked monasteries on the lagoon,bell towers, slender as heron necks.Monks move shadow-thin through cloisters,chants dissolving into the mist.Screeching vespers over swaying boats,lanterns flicker—small, defiant suns.Salt...

The wood of cello's bow clinging,with the rhythm of a coffin's nail, knocking bone to bone...Echoing that I am coming,before the screaming,of my departed soul.

Rain hissed against the stained-glass, turning saints into smears of color—a fractured Virgin Mary, a weeping Peter. The air smelled of damp stone and something sharper, like the metallic tang of a thumb pressed too long against a blade,...

I felt as if I had displaced the last bobbin of my soul, like dominos falling on a stacked deck of cards, each piece tumbling into a void like a key without a hole. The threads of my mind...

In the sticky heat of a midnight confession booth where the whiskey's hour clings to my roots and the preacher don’t ask no questions, just slides me a cigarette through the grate,and ask me. "No regrets?" There's a bullet hole...