#jlimrosenberg

[uh-set-ik] 

(n.) can also be used as (adj.) 1. a person who dedicates themselves to asceticism, which is a system of ideals characterized by austerity and self-denial, esp. for religious reasons, like a monk. 2. a person who leads a very simple life and abstains from worldly comforts and pleasures.

A track along the coast shunts her down while she bleeds into a knapsack filled with postcards and plane tickets, notepads from other bedrooms, other mornings, other names.

Take care, whoever you are. The coast is miles from here, and her watch is hours late.

A daymare rests on oaken legs, hardened by moon-sounds and sun-sounds, quiescent upon a red summit scaled only by ghost trains, conductors      sound asleep. But August never lies.

Its bruised-leaf noons recall the eyeliner she left on our sheets, when the hot-flat morning swallowed her whole,

taking with it my sandals, broken by stones on the northern tropic. What remains is the dry reek of wine, a pair of false eyelashes, a happy ache in these tired legs--

and God knows, only one of these will see me out with all the pieces      that I brought in.