“Ava kisses the way she walks,” Matt says about his ex-wife. He speeds down the two-lane highway with no remorse, and as the afternoon light slices through passing trees, it momentarily illuminates the top of his head, creating little halos, one after the other that slip off. Brenda remembers the way Ava walked. Those kisses [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 7, 2009
Body Electric
You talk about carbon nanosheets, and how the earth becomes charged in a storm. All that energy strains towards the sky. The lighting has the upper-hand in the relationship—striking when and where it pleases. That’s where the lightning rod comes in. The sharp edge humans create in defense, to divert energy to cold steel. I [...]
