Category: Spring 2017

He longed to be surprising,
egged on by mornings dulled
by hangovers and vomit.
His hands were never clean
when he came home from the site.

She emerges wearing a welder’s mask (I try not to stare) because the blood will splatter under her electric drill—a Black & Decker used to

The kind of thing I see in movies/memories when there are dark basements involved. He sat on the small of her back, cupped her chin