Daily On the Underground

[dailyontheunderground]

GIVING NOTICE

masked, your breath is loud as train meeting tunnel, his, beside you, and sun

[dailyontheunderground]

FAMILIAR GHOSTS

to rumble, again underneath this, to emerge elsewhere, in new rain

[dailyontheunderground]

MIDDLE OF NOWHERE

i thought we stopped in the middle of nowhere i hate when that happens

[dailyontheunderground]

500 LASHES

guarding her eyes an army of dense antennae and proboscises

[dailyontheunderground]

EVENT HORIZON

lulling jolts and calm shrieking noises i should sleep but i'm too tired

[dailyontheunderground]

AN EXERCISE

someone smells rank, at each station i triangulate, but my nose is no good

[dailyontheunderground]

DIRECTIONAL REVELATION

no laid track or bored tunnels can stop one ending up in the wrong place

[dailyontheunderground]

IN SEASON

olive green must be in season. all these trunks are decked in mossy matte neutrals.

[dailyontheunderground]

GLOAMOROUS

dusk enough to apply lipstick in the window but not enough to gauge the outcome

[dailyontheunderground]

THREE WAYS TO BE ALONE

heard through empty headphones: “are you on match.com?” nearby, solitaire on a sideways iPhone. _

[dailyontheunderground]

A SHAME

the cliché: two weeks to build a habit, two days to obliterate one. _

[dailyontheunderground]

FAST FASHION

to look up one day and notice that the advertisements have new blooms _

[dailyontheunderground]

PLACENTERA

four days in Spain and my cansada brain is mescling unlike words again _

[dailyontheunderground]

MERRY-GO-ROUND

don’t dwell on the fact that you’re trapped underground in a dark manmade tube _

[dailyontheunderground]

NOT THE DESTINATION

some glide down the stairs with a beetle’s syncopated legs. others tumble.  _

[dailyontheunderground]

A SNAPSHOT TABLEAU

she lopes toward the doors trailing her children(?) her whole face smiling _

[dailyontheunderground]

HOW TO BECOME AN EXHIBITIONIST

1. read a heart- wrecking novel in public with hot wet eyes. don’t move. _