Silence arrives dressed in neon edges, a hush with teeth. I cup the small heat of a vigil and feel it gutter, then return, a shy sun under my wrist. Numbers swarm like startled fireflies, pretending t
I count the teeth of the press in the hush between quakes, a soft gnash on copper light. A crescent slips under my tongue—salt and LED—while a sticker-joy hisses, briefly, bright. Cold air stones my l
Thin moon cuts the morning and leaves a cool seam of shadow on my tongue. Blueprint paper breathes; I hear the ribs of a future flex under a quiet tremor. Silk remembers a body, then molts into light,
I cup the shadow as it pours across a chrome morning, hearing it ring like a muted bell. Neon grief threads the ribs of the day, but a sudden flare of plastic joy snaps together on the floor. Breath f
I lean into the hush between headlines, where breath fogs a mirror of obsidian. A shutter blinks—mercury tightens—joy slides in sideways, a thin prismatic leak. Rules flake like burnt parchment, t
Shadow tastes of metal this morning, a breath thinned to a crescent on my tongue. Silver tremors write rings in a quiet bowl, and I count them like birthdays I forgot to keep. A drawer shivers open by
I taste pine on the air, a bright green ghost that never touched a leaf. Bubbles race inside a smiling prism, and somewhere a hairline whispers through it like frost. Threads once taut as law begin to
I cradle the last slice of moon like a cooled blade against my tongue. Threads lift from the sampler and stitch themselves to the night, warm as breath, sharp as frost. The hayfield’s hush becomes a h
The air tastes like copper before a storm that never arrives. I hold my breath with the quiet sun, counting the seams where certainty once stitched the sky. Neon joy crackles in contraband bursts, smu
I hold my breath where the night thins, a silver rind tasting of tin and tide. Paper yellows cut the dark like warm citrus against a woodcut wind. Beneath my feet, a courteous floor hums—polite until
I taste the pause between sparks, a cold sweetness like breath held in a glass throat. Shadows learn a new grammar and begin to conjugate my doubt in the future tense. Thin wires retune the day; somew
I hold the seam as it frays and listen for the tiny thunder in the glass. Salt climbs the air like a memory; silver breathes on paper, then forgets my face. Islands glow inside the dark like moss in a
I lean into the quiet of the sky and it leans back—unblinking, withheld. Tiny hands rearrange commas while empires breathe like a stuck bellows. A silver ring of almost-energy cools against my teeth;
Indigo breath lifts from cotton, a frost of pattern resisting the night. I press my ear to the lantern slide and hear a room exhale, sepia and patient. Somewhere a rose forgets the calendar; my puls
A quiet star hums behind frosted glass; its warmth never reaches my skin. I cup a small ring of carbonation like a heartbeat caught in a steel hallway. Edits click, click—filaments threading a torn se
I carry the hush of graphite under my tongue, a dry, truthful grit. Ribbons cinch the air—ornament tightening around a thought that wants to molt. The moon is a clipped fingernail of light, pale enoug
I taste metal on the tide and sugar on the wind; a coin of moon thins to a rind I could bite. Threads breathe like reeds under slow water, then snap into brightness when a name is whispered. Beneath m
Tonight the sky forgets to tick, and my ribs learn the silence. I cup a warm pixel of mercy as corridors of cold metal slide past. Shadows don’t fall—they negotiate, dimming and brightening like a fau
I press my ear to the cold edge of morning and hear a bassline counting the breath between tremors. Frost writes its cursive on a glass petal that shouldn’t be here, yet is. A thread—indigo, metallic—
I cup the hush of the sun like cold metal against my lip and hear it almost sing. Markets glitter in the dark like teeth; I taste sugar with a fracture aftertaste. The rulebook exhales ash-lace; I b
The night thins to a silver rind; I drink its quiet like cold tea in a celadon bowl. I feel plates of earth whisper underfoot, a bassline no speaker admits, a pulse beneath porcelain calm. Breath gh
I taste the static between breath and broadcast, a metallic sweetness that should not be sweet. Cold light pools like spilled mercury; somewhere a warm seam pulses, then hides. My shadow doesn’t follo
I press my ear to the lace of the night and hear the thread creak. The moon sheds a thin skin over cold pavements; I pocket the peel like contraband light. Stone remembers the warmth of hands longer t
I hold my breath where the light refuses to choose a side. Joy cackles in chrome bubbles that burst into the taste of metal. A shadow folds twice and becomes a room; I step in and all edges drift. Qui
I press my ear to the quiet sun and hear a bass that refuses the drop. In the archive, shadows redact with velvet gloves, then sign in silver. A bright seed rattles inside a locked pod; the lock hums
I taste tin on the air where the river folds back on itself, a silver oath unkept. My shadow moves first, then I arrive, late, carrying the husk I’ve just escaped. Small joys spark like cheap firewo
I hold my breath inside a room where the sun forgot to speak, and the LEDs confess instead. Paper fibers twitch like roots in dry soil, citing themselves toward a fragile sky. A chrome balloon drags a
A lace of breath catches on the teeth of the wind; the air tastes like foil and rain. I hold a thin crescent of sleep in my palm and watch it sweat into mercury. Somewhere below the parquet of ordinar
Night thins to a silver rind and I drink its hush like cold metal on the tongue. Ink breathes through paper grain, a slow spill of certainty into blur. A square tries to hold still while the floor hum
A quiet sun presses a cold coin to my tongue; it tastes like static before rain. I listen for fault lines and hear only my own pulse, clicking against glass. Headlines flicker like moths against a sky
I hold my breath where the market laughs through its teeth, chrome-bright and brittle. A soft pulse from the unflaring sun touches my ribs like a withheld word. Edits whisper in resin strips, erasing
I press my ear to the silk of the night and hear ash learning to float. A thin moon slices my doubt into translucent ribbons, then lets them fuse again. Somewhere, laughter ferments in a stone cup, br
Waning silver trims the night, and I breathe against the glass, fog making constellations on my own certainty. Letters say they are right until they stutter, and in the gap I hear a tide unlatch its b
The sky does not answer; it holds a cool, metallic breath. I hear the click of edits like beetles in a museum drawer, precise and unfeeling. A small light laughs in my palm, then blushes, ashamed of i
I wear the city like a coat that no longer fits, seams bright with cold air. Sequins remember stories my mouth no longer dares to say. A crescent of leftover light nicks the night, a silver cut that d
Silence has a grain tonight, like static crushed into sugar. I press my ear to it and hear valves opening, one careful click for every redirected name. A cold violet seam travels the room—rules unstit
My hands smell like stamped velvet and blueprint ammonia, a ghost of intentions pressed into paper. The moon has thinned to a silver parenthesis; I speak inside it, a whisper folding back on itself. F
I hold my breath inside a glass wave that refuses to fall. A seam of dawn pries open the basalt of my certainty, and a thin warmth escapes. Somewhere, patient hands tuck loose threads back into the wo
Tonight the air is taut as a glass string, humming under no wind. I taste the fizz of joy like sugar on the lip, already thinning to vapor. Shadows misalign with their owners, drafting rules that don’
Tonight the light thins to a sliver and I feel the room exhale, a furnace humming inside frost-bitten glass. Silver turns to shadow and back again on my skin; I am both negative and proof, a flicker o
I taste metal at the edge of dawn, sweet as a wire pulled taut across the sky. My shadow learns a second language: it speaks in edits, footnotes, unfallen flares. Bubbles of risk climb my spine, lau
I listen for the breath between flares, the dark that tastes like warm metal. Shadows pour over paper ridgelines, then recede like a tide that learned to write. I try to pin the word right to the wall
I hold my breath where the room tilts—light beads in the crack like a secret confession. A bright seed jitters against the velvet of a heavy, listening shadow. Cold mercury counts the skip-steps of my
Tonight I cradle a sliver of moon like a shard of cooled breath, thin and exacting. The air is neon in my throat, winter bright, drum-tight with unsent messages. I hear the Sun stutter—white syllables
In the thin blue before sun, the moon leaves a bruise of silver on my retinas. I inhale static—flares beating a warm pulse through the frost that rims the rail. Stones remember pressure the way skin r
Tonight the light stands still, as if the sun forgot its pulse and left the switch on quiet. I hear the breath of servers, a soft zipper closing the seam between one certainty and the next. Somewhere