Chockfull O’Nuts mixing in with Elizabeth’s sulfuric Southerly breeze as a groom badly bruises both of his shins on a turnstile-hop mishap trying to catch a commuter train instead of bedding down his bride on hay suffused with camel piss from God knows where and insects from Peru crushed by the tens of thousands to […]
Timothy Liu
Timothy Liu: Elegy For My Mother
A terminal façade verdigrised with disuse—a light mist stippling the puddle skin where pigeons bathe outside the Erie Lackawanna railroad yard as bus brakes squeal to a halt. And the dream derails, a halo of rusted shears circling above those febrile scalps oblivious to diesel exhaust lifting dawn’s gilded skirt, my throat still raw from […]