the poisoner’s wife in the cool like lemonade of a hot summer’s day he went as though it were unto a pool the sodium he administered made us a great salt cellar with appurtenances of a modern-day Cellini the furnishings and fixtures round the pool © 2010 Christopher Mulrooney the ask it man in his [...]
Entries from May 2010
May 20, 2010
My Neighbor’s Secret
A few days after I moved to Atlanta, about twenty years ago, I came home from my new teaching job at Georgia State to find my grass mowed and a lanky white man in his sixties wearing overalls and a straw hat, trimming my hedges. “What are you doing?” I asked, jumping out of my [...]
May 13, 2010
Let me do this, now
Let me do this, now: I’ll drag you down there, down, down, where you will feel lonelier than I, and less delicate, less alive, somehow, jealous of my moving body, in the lights, itself a shifting light. See, love, this is what you missed. What you will miss, are missing out on – it’s passing, [...]
May 6, 2010
Awake and Exiles
awake The furnace-black odor of cigarettes made acid shadows where you slept — it took me days to smell the cotton clean. It’s a scarred pleasure of mercy to stop feeling you near me, finally. I may have spit the waxwork gristle of collapsed probability, but tinfoil dreams still wire through my unteachable delta rhythm [...]
