Sublime

benighted.”

“Lachrimae”

Like a merciful cloak, paralysis enveloped his body.

penitential

Sometime during the night, Maxine dreams she’s a mouse who’s been running at large inside the walls of a vast apartment building she understands is the U.S., venturing out into kitchens and pantries to scavenge for food, scuffling but free, and in these small hours she has been attracted by what she recognizes as a sort of humane mousetrap yet cann

Sisyphean task,”