Meet these unfinished and playful thought starters. Each is an unwritten story or advertisement, the earliest sign of life–that moment when the lights inside an egg turn on and a tiny beak breaks open its shell…
- Lil Roar: meow like you mean it
- Grow a unibrow garden, an orchid of peach trees
- The smell of a city at dusk–the ryst on fire escape, trusted by happy babies since 1968
- Darsatha, surrender not behind your colorful cloak, arise, awaken, daughter become
- Last April was the cruelest month yet, when the crops died, and my cat died, and the teacher who once loved my work sold it to an Egyptian cryptographer
- The confident man sneezed so loudly that his laces came untied and the fat church going woman nearly fainted, crying out for the ‘lord, lord alight mighty’
- In the tomb you’re forbidden from seeing, I hide a confession
- PlowoRam, the easiest way to move the Left to the Right
- A sparrow landed on the water turning the red crescent moon’s reflections into silent waves
- Eyes under flaps of skin, eyes beneath the puff flesh, a hungry soul makes herself known
- We did not know he was an evil man when we invited him in
- The stillness of constant motion, repeating itself so smoothly and quickly as if it did not exist
- the little girl’s red balloon snapped with the wind as a parade of elephants floated by her window
- The moment before his life ended, Sam remembered the blueberry yogurt he left out of the fridge
- refracted in each rain drop a flattering copy of nature’s best portrait
- Wake-fresh—Get 2 more hours of sleep at the blink of an eye
- The flying submarine you always wanted, now available in yellow
- Snoper—a dose of dirty dish delivered daily
- We were the Nation of Jesus & Meth, of Blue Jeans and BBQs, Monday Night Football and escalators to the Cheesecake Factory
A Life of Wonder 