Illuxion

I found a lucky penny

yesterday

from 1982.

It was heads up

facedown

outside of a gas station

that sells liquid cocaine.

I clenched my teeth

whilst staring down

listening to the sound

of rushing water

behind my eyes.

All the things

I’d say face to face

came in parabolic waves

of repetition

and OCD.

I reached down

to pick up the penny

but a black cat

emerging from the shadows

crossed my path

and ran off with

the damned thing.

Favorite Part of Letter Go

The woman from Norway

delicately broke my ribs

one by one in the dark

hyperextending

my sentimentality.

I thought about you

in the darker

how novelties from May

wore off faster

than your mascara

on a rainy night.

How the hours since August

have been mocking me

and the one that follows

is a bullet:

how I can’t stop time

from reaching my eyes.

I thought about us

in the darkest

but it’s goofy thinking

that led us here

and goofy thinking

that can reverse

these fractures.