I went out with a painter once.  He was always on the look-out for a new color he’d never seen before.  It could be a store sign or some spice or fabric at the market—he’d rush back to his apartment and try to mix the color on the spot. He used to wear these thin-soled […]

Elias Morgenthau President, Ellipses Typewriters 10 Foundry Way Dr. Patrick McKay, PhD c/o McKay Transformational Linguistics Institute re: The prototype Dear Dr. McKay, I regret to inform you that we have misapprehended the difficulties in implementing the typewriter for your revolutionary new alphabet. You make a compelling argument that a representation of language drawing on […]

My lover puts up with my body, I take up too much of the bed. Who is your lover she says and my lover she says I’m uncanny today! Let’s arrive more slowly I say, a ghost, swapping ourselves with ourselves, and she says do you really want to be in my body my blood […]

The architect is a master of sharp corners. Some of his corners are as perplexing as malice in fairy tales. Others as treacherous as minor chords first thing in the morning. We’re waiting for him to emerge from the office he has built himself into with his own entangled corners. We fear that he may […]