Complicity
We dance with
skeletons. We steal cable. We leave violent stains on the carpet. We shift the
blame to the fellaheen digging for papyri at an ancient historical site. We
cross off career options. We put likeable liars in office and dark-skinned
mothers and babies in jail. We go around looking for this or that clue, this or
that miraculous city, without even once catching a glimpse. Rather, where our
gaze just happens to fall, worse soon follows. The ground bleeds, the moon
aches. Fire chews through brick walls. Ideas lose elasticity. The dreaming
heads of sleepers get pried open.
Howie Good is the author most recently of Stick Figure Opera from Cajun Mutt
Press, What It Is and How to Use It
from Grey Book Press, and Spooky Action
at a Distance from Analog Submission Press. He co-edits the online journals
Unbroken and UnLost.
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