I felt the loneliness this time like I didn’t feel it before like it was my new best friend like it had the key to my door I haven’t felt this overlooked since I was seventeen and I pressed the phone to my lips and willed him to call me a footnote a thread [...]

Snake wraps round twin towers winding its way up (this a stealthy helix) while wrong flies in on wings of righteousness praying for death Wife carries a terrible tiny bundle— toothbrush and comb from bathroom cabinet— and joins a line that snakes along a street-valley in Lower Manhattan, (this a helix of despair) while spiraling [...]