Oh My

I

Sigh

And say

It's

A

Fine Day.

Light The Lanterns

"I hate the way you smoke."

He exhaled, took a drag, and held it in his lungs. He always saw the smoke as water, rising up a column in laminar flow. If he didn't smoke the way he smoked, he didn't see it, and it didn't feel like smoking.

"Yeah, well. You smoke like a girl."

"....I am a girl."

"....So you are."

He blew out a string of smoke, and felt the wind's fingers push at his hair.

"I like your hair."

"Thank you. I thought you would."

"Hmm."

And so they stood there, staring at each other's feet, listening to the lock stream by, as the sunset turned the water a deeper shade of purple with every passing degree.

Arson

A thousand silences will not scrub you clean.

Toss your husks on for the roast.

When your house burns down to your ankles,

You will find a pail of water,

and think first of your thirst

and cinders will sink to the ocean floor.

This Perpetual Journey

She has a thing for losing things. She also has a thing for jewellery. It follows, of course, that she has a thing for losing jewellery. A nosepin down a drain, or a ring in the sewer, or earrings in the move. Yet she guards heirlooms with her life, holding them deep within the palm of her heart.

She saves them for a stormy night, and a cliff looking over the rocks below. She hopes they will help her find the voices she heard in the autumn, when the nights traded places amongst themselves, and time stretched and turned inside out.

To this day, she looks, but the nosepin, the ring, the earrings, they've all lost shelter in the rains and their mountains in the wind.