9.2 / February 2014

Lima – the strangest departure

Stained, mute monks eased prone tenantless, masses – unsophisticated, purple-black reserve, slices of silver, oakum cobs, infection, and exhibition – constables involuntarily indulge disconcerted, ceased decency, instinct, and misrule of spirit – Anna.

Informing breeze pauses – trust, amazement and strange fitful tracks – doubt and sunshine’s syllables pronounce ghostly instants, edged collaborators, dry chests, vacant purposes, cloudy nightcap notions, prolonged arranging, cordial appearances, purposely-referring – half grunts – best skins – tonight Senor?

Blank ghetto smelter’s moments – a temporary mouth – rapt servant, gently anxious, calves part, entangling skeletons and crippling gestures hasten weakness, thrust compromise, half-choked slanting blood – swift impulse preceding midnight in unmoving repose and an overhanging eye demand settling with salt.

Less real than in deceptive, quaint light and melancholily equipping immediate interruption, hampering resolve – indisposed American self-reproach & withdrawn off-handed air, lumbering through a noon breeze departure – no bullets.

The carpenter as the first witness, sheep’s eyes and golden rod with a scented barber accompanying mystery, good breeding, a transom servant but otherwise constant to a subordinate post – future circumstances. Undefined soliloquy affirms and ratifies, selected omitting of relaxed implications, chalked words the state of things – on the coast of Miraflores.


Geoffrey Miller’s recent fiction publications are ‘Ahr-kuh-pel-uh-goh’ Labletter, July 2013, ‘Something Inside’ Ilanot, July 2012. Two new pieces of fiction will be out soon in The Journal of Micro Literature and Ginosko Literary Journal. His photography can be found in recent editions of Sliver of Stone, Superstition Review, and Cha.
9.2 / February 2014

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