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When You Hear Music // Jason Dean Arnold

Apr 2, 2019
2 min

When You Hear Music // Jason Dean Arnold

When You Hear Music* Some say that the earth will end in fire, swallowed In heat, a waiting inferno gestating inside, and if It’s true, we’ve had lots of close calls- summers When our sun remained unseen through volcanic ash, Summers of golden states blanketed entirely in flame, Summers when split atoms crushed whole cities To dust, and summers when I listened to your body breathe, Struggle to stay. My father created tapes to take your mind Off pain, to another time, maybe th

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You and Your Ocean // Emmanuelle Post

Nov 25, 2018
6 min

You and Your Ocean // Emmanuelle Post

When I think of you, I smell the candied fennel you're chewing on. I smell that perfume you stole from Nordstrom during that period when you fancied yourself some kind of Stevie Nicks fantasy in that stupid fucking oversized hat. That perfume always smelled like water to me -- like if water were supposed to have a smell. When we first met we talked about the ocean, and for a second I thought it was corny, but I let myself like it. I was 22 years old and I thought everything w

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Language Lessons at Corporate Coffee

May 9, 2018
2 min

Language Lessons at Corporate Coffee

Language Lessons at Corporate Coffee by KJ Geisler "Stare Decisis" she (you) said "Like precedent.'" I interpreted as always, of course, you told me I was wrong but half my mind was already gone - looking for philological precedents . (not nearly as bothered, as once, by not being accepted correct) and since you had already rebuffed my line about Van Gogh I was away at the smials pulling open drawers folding out files long disused. Not much under "Latin" but that leads to Ita

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