Tag Archives: Lee Patterson

there is only 1 blockbuster video & I don’t know how many baobab trees left in the world. I weep for the loss of my future children who will never learn to be kind by rewinding. I have seen more blockbuster video stores than skies, but I have never seen a baobab tree. I am […]

you come over dressed as weather: your hair the color of cumulonimbus, your breath an indian summer. you find me in the tub, scrubbing off parts of yesterday that refused to leave with it. we are living in a disaster movie, but it’s not something we talk about: not the asteroid cascading toward earth; not […]

my esophagus has been crying, so I bought an umbrella for my heart. everything sags when it gets soggy. my doctor told me that. she had a stethoscope in her ears, the cold metal pressed against my chest. I told her cigarettes have been tasting better lately. she shrugged. the devil won’t mind, she told […]