from The Surface World

Who shot the Alabama kid? Gunshow cock robin yields to lore. That’s not enough anymore. Chicago on the horizon. Invasions are everywhere. The mesquite trees are winning. It is time of year when the weather can’t settle – right before the assault of the histamines – painted by Nicolas Poussin. Something to look forward to at the bus stop or in the graveyard. I am told we are winning the war.

Seth Copeland

from The Surface World

from The Surface World

If I try to write about now, will now try to kill me ;?: Hush you. There’s always more to endure. Lindsey chases a spring around his perfect universe in the apartment. Germs say similar things about us to each other.

What survives of the moment must be true to what people were really feeling. This is not boundary stele – bas relief of the smitten Hyksos. Let it be known the people wanted bread.

Stevie runs by stalking something on the floor. Their night is not our fight. They will wake to the same world.

Seth Copeland

from The Surface World