January 2006

Snow globules hanging from the trees, like silvery pollen or the larvae of worms. Rice fields smothered by six months of snow, their feeder canals obliterated, the shallow stream a black slit in the hollow. Houses dwarfed by their new…

i was born in a silence car with only her heartbeat for a drum no ringing bells or false alarms i swam through the day’s eclipses i was born in a silence car but the sounds infected my tiny ears…