by wpham on 6:00 pm | 2010 February 28
HUES THAT I HAD NOT SEEN In the city they built war machines. The once-blue skies stained gray with the smoke of war: burning coal and smelting iron to build bombs and bombs and bombs. Everything became gray: the quaint little cafes, the mechanics’ garages, and all the bookshops; the books inside and all their [...]
by wpham on 5:39 pm | 2010 February 2
WENDER WELDS THE WAY Wender welds the way then cleaves, then cleaves. Splinters hang from boughs like outstretched fingers to a child’s crinkled mouth. He reaches upward and this is a slight gesture and he retreats from this as if it were dust. But he box-steps forward, dim brown eyes downcast, neither registering nor registered [...]