• The ebony above my head was a mysterious incarnation magnified by the introduction of an asthmatic sun. How I saw it so sick, dressed in rain clouds, held only by the form it had taken in my iris. I moved ghostly out the front door but with every step I could hear a sound louder than the top of my lungs. Inside the cab I had called, I shook up every word to the driver who kept saying over and over, where are you headed to? He thought a truck had come out of my mouth but it was only the illusion of past cars who yelled through the cracks of the window. Unfolding like the liar in questioning, my mind finally caught up to us for a few seconds while I faded out of the cab to the train station.

    Everything seemed to surround everything as I watched on before the chill climbed through my body, planting a flag in the daze I felt high in. It was then I heard the tide of metal on the tracks, birthing a breeze that drifted through my clothes. Somehow I got on a train going to South Station. I played dumb with my brain, calming it down using the imagery you can gather near a window seat. Disappearing from the eye contact people handed out in a polite fury, I slept for a few moments. I was awoken at the last stop by thunderous workers as people cleared like deer from a gunshot. The people looked like dizzied, faceless blurs to me, one replacing another as they moved out of my memory.

    I thought right there, to explode in a selfish boom, bleaching the impressions people had of me. The love of it soon faded as I boarded a bus to New York City. All the talk and twenty bucks gone made me hear sleep. This quieted sound strummed all the activity in my body to a state of ignorance. Under the tunnels, swallowing that bus whole, we all got out before the bus vanished to someplace I thought about for a few moments then trashed it for someone else to pick up. Following a trail from a cell phone call, I saw my friend waiting for me with an itchy sort of appearance to her face. We exchanged the usual talk until a man came behind me and said don't move. All I did was stare at the sky as they loaded me in, finally figuring out that the sun was imploding as I went blind in the ambulance.