Tryst Feature Writer: Benjamin Buchholz

Fragments from the Rise

(These messages have been censored...)

Label Set: CONFIDENTIAL CARD: ERRAT

/GENTEXT/RMK/34, CASPAR, WYOMING. HEARD THE SOUND OF THE SEVENTH WIND
SINGING IN THE SPACE WHERE THE GUYLINES SNARE IDOLS FROM THE TRAP
THUMB HOOKED IN THE WEBBING OF HIS VEST WHEN HE WENT TO
INVESTIGATE. THERE WAS AN APPREHENSION IN THE NAMES HE MADE FOR
AND YOU, CALLING TO QIBLA FROM THE TOP TIER OF A FOREGONE AND
PADLOCKED FOOTBALL FIELD. A SMALL MAN CUT GRASS IN THE ENDZONE.
BEADS OF SWEAT SALTED YOUR LOWER LIP.

Label Set: CONFIDENTIAL CARD: ITATA

/GENTEXT/RMK/20, GANADO, TEXAS. HE REACHED INTO HIS VEST FOR SOMETHING,
WE KNOW NOT WHAT, AND WHEN HE LOOKED UP AGAIN THE BLACK FUSILAGE OF CROW'S
WINGS DANCED IN THE NAKED TWILIGHT. WATCH THIS CLAY DISSOLVE INTO WATER,
HOW THE ARMS FROM THE IMPERFECT PRESSING OF IT SPLAY AND WRINKLE UPWARD,
FIBROUS MATTER BECOMING MANDELBROT IN THE STILL, SWEET SODA OF BEATIFIC
DISSOLUTION.

Label Set: CONFIDENTIAL CARD: ITAVS

/GENTEXT/RMK/27, FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA. SHE WATCHED HER FATHER QUARTER AN
IN- JUST SOUTH OF THE HOHOKAM PIT HOUSE IN THE HIGH STEPPE.
MORE THAN THAT, SHE CARRIED A SHANK , EACH OF THEM
TOOK ONE, STRAPPED WITH A LENGTH OF HEMP ACROSS THEIR HAUNCHES.
SHE SHUDDERED BUT DID NOT LOOK BACK BEHIND HER TO SEE
THE SHADOWS OF THE COYOTES LIKE FADED ROCK PAINTINGS AROUND THE GUT PILE.

Label Set: CONFIDENTIAL CARD: PRRAT

/GENTEXT/RMK/31, ELIZAVILLE, NEW YORK. THE ETERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE, A
FASCINATION OF FORM AND FUNCTION. THERE IS THE PISTONING OFF-SET CAMBER,
AND THE OIL, AND THE RADIANT STULTIFYING , THE ACTION OF THE
SPINNING BANDS. HOW THE EYES CAN BE ALLOWED TO BLUR WHEN THE SPARK KICKS
OUT AND THE RODS BEGIN TO PUMP AND IN THE POWER AND CUP OF THAT POUNDING
ALL INSTANCES MERGE.

Label Set: CONFIDENTIAL CARD: AVPER

/GENTEXT/RMK/36, POCONO SUMMIT, PENNSYLVANIA. TO THE BODY OF THIS
DISSECTION BID THEE BE GONE AND STRANGELY SET THE OMBUDSMAN TO STEER THEE
NEARER THE STYGIAN BUREAU.

» Next Page: Featured Poetry