Archive - The Night Office

Trapped as we are by the wall of clouds, we push against it to push through The cars seem silent, nothing more than two hollow moons drifting in tandem…

Nov 3, 2024

September 2024

The Air That Moves Around Us

Here there be things we cannot say: Columns of light moving toward Earth, visions that hurt us with their inability to be seen golden in the air. We…

Sep 14, 2024

July 2024

These wings droop heavily like feathers and ache like chains moving against rust across links These distractions wash against the shore beating back…

Jul 22, 2024

June 2024

Waiting for when the world looks sunless; trees framed dark against the background. And all the time this ringing sound like soap in my eyes to my ears…

Jun 30, 2024

March 2024

When this house is still silence will become the weight of unspoken things

Mar 9, 2024

February 2024

Where the Past Shivered Free of the Future

Think about the child, he said Think about the past Think about the memories that last These things are not cut off they are left to grow against the…

Feb 18, 2024

Forever is the fingers of a skeleton pointing toward doom Forever is the shadow over everything The stutter in your step and in your heart The moments…

Feb 3, 2024

January 2024

Somewhere the Moon Sang

Somewhere the moon sang me to sleep while I with a glittering eye lay fallow using my moments to buy time Over the ocean the moon became a star as smoke…

Jan 28, 2024

December 2023

Automatic Writing

The silence of the mind letting go to hold onto things I cannot see This is the end of all things The slow dark descent into other things I can see less…

Dec 26, 2023

November 2023

Taking the long way home feels like stolen time Moments on the edge of today no one can see, no one can know This tap like a wick to fuel Like a…

Nov 24, 2023

Lines to Different People

Somewhere there is a sky I am not looking at Somewhere there is dirt in a yard with a small fence Somewhere there is a beautiful girl in a small house…

Nov 4, 2023

October 2023

Mud puddles like tiny lakes that drain through tiny rivers and are carried away Rain like an incessant drum while the smaller creatures play in oceans…

Oct 29, 2023

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