All of these hours and the ice sheets melting into soup, the world now one-third plastic, beach sand like Beta and Atari, phantom erections, phantom voices, a 2000 year-old ghost forest uncovered by rough seas….
Date Archives January 2012
Sentence I by Lydia Ship
Each member of my family was born as a page in a book. All of the words had to form a relevant artistic whole, so we spent the minutes of our days examining each word…
The Other Part of Time by Lydia Ship
My family made a bigger family to seek out the purest sighting. We tried to grow our family to as many members as possible, and we met in each other’s houses every night. We built…
Fortune by Lydia Ship
Our god created a flower so that we would seek it; he sent us off in hiding; he arranged all manner of elaborate ways to visit us; he sometimes turned us into animals. He controlled…
Treasure Hunters by Lydia Ship
We were looking for wisdom and saved up for wisdom detectors to use much like treasure hunters moving in the cadence of the blind on stillborn beaches. Then we had to save up for time….