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It all started with a glimpse through the single lamp on the Atlantic side.  Under the stillness of Altair, Mira, Sadr; above the Silence of the Lambs.

Woke up and slept with the same buzz; with the same initial typed at the end of each heart-rending note. Detested by those dreadful musty karaoke rooms, she rarely dared––with a shaky yet sensual voice––to sing along with Gloria’s ‘I Will Survive’; the glorious Gloria.

I read her lips every single time in slow motion:

And so you’re back

From

outer 

space…

I never pitied her, but I did the ones who pitied her.

-s

Toronto, January 2023

He was sitting on the park bench up the Embankment, holding the goldfish bowl he had picked from the market. Full of the miseries of his own failures, which he had been carrying for the past fifty-odd days. His throat was sore. His heart too.

Sipping on her bottle of cheap sherry, the woman gave him a look and whispered a few words: sulfur, wings, warm, warmth. 

The moon was a thin vertical arc that night. It was fucking splendid.

-s
Toronto, January 2023