Pine Box [Vamped]

Abstract

I know where I'm going I just don't have the address. Here's the key. Take the car and drive to the end of the block. Do you want me to shoot someone or build you a house? Aromatic wood was burning in the cast iron brazier by the side of the pool. He ran in and out of the shadows for almost a mile then gave up and jumped on a bus. I feel like some music. Does the radio work? I'm going to smoke a cigarette. Never mind where we're going. Just keep your eyes on the road. They cut him good and deep. Just below the ribs on his left side. When he smiled a line of blood trickled out of the corner of his mouth. Behind the door a small audience was applauding the recitation of an old song. He ran his fingers through the thick blonde hair on the back of his head. Where was the melody? He didn't want to keep his friends waiting any longer. Thick smoke rises into the veil of lavender that lingers from the previous fire. A ghost and an angel define the shadows by dancing along the cracks in the ceiling. The tricks of the trade for the names of the streets. A failed substitution. Private details of a discarded world. I recognize the proof in the dissolve. Palimpsest- written between January 26th and March 16th. Letters: composed between March 16th and April 21 st. Codicil: translated with J. on April 25th. The 31 Sequels: begun on April 26th. Plan for Pond 4: translated with J. on April 30th. The complexity built from something more to add to the lion's mouth. [May 2nd] 1, 2,4,5, 6 ... they forgot Wednesday. But the calendar makers were shrewd. By also omitting the following Saturday the month realized its proper resolution. Two omissions = 1 heads blindly for 31. Made to be a loss and then another made right. Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo. The gloom still clings to the approaching light that fills the missing days. The continuous. The metropolitan. The first letter to the second letter and on to the last letter. T to H. From H to T The days, weeks, months pass. T to H. From T to H. Second initiative, second front. Before the E eleven people are engulfed by the snow never to be seen again. You alone survive. Arriving here with me. Distikhos. Beeswing. Reverie is the second codicil and the fifth project. Died back into the provided page. Countenance shuffled. Pared away. Orogeny (the last word of the evening): a walk in the woods, a blank sheet of paper, swollen ankles, Mozart and a glass of wine. …