Remem­ber the tower that reached—until it fell— toward the heav­ens? How it sounded as it grew: A blood feud of car­togra­phies: Olym­pus, Chicago, The Hang­ing Gar­dens of Baby­lon: where flo­ral pen­du­lums keep the wind-wrecked pop­u­lace hyp­no­tized; Where to live is to lie naked in a world that you know can­not pro­tect you. A chain of […]

The Appren­tice Doc­u­ments Your life was spent in increments—on earth, and on air—until a ghost writer over­turned the struc­ture: There, there. Higher and higher float the feet, in this flight scene—Look­ing back I can’t grasp How it was humanly pos­si­ble, Eury­dice, to get so alone. Enter echo. To get so “alone” meant “I should have […]