Author: Eric Ghelfi

fuck with me and see what happens to my fragile sensibilities and fragrant insecurities we all love the night sky but watch our phones under electric lights when she floats softly through our dreams like the Ambien™ butterfly. I awoke…

at taking a college education for granted and watching Netflix because the future is bright for a semi-employable fisherman with a penchant for frozen burritos and waking up at noon with my MacBook facedown on the floor and a bag…

Sniffing with eyes closed to reproduce the effect you knew four years ago:   Slice of intoxication. Swinging blindly. Falling asleep in willow arms. I’m more concerned with you than I am with myself. Four finger puppets dancing in the…

When looking at the sculpted ash rose petals clutching the cherry of my cigarette last night I realized that Holly was dead. I mean, I feel it, right now, am feeling it, her deadness—hurricane static on the widescreen. That’s when…

There was always something with her.  If nothing made her pace back and forth I’m not sure she’d know what else to do. But I guess this is something worth worrying about. “It’s gonna be fine,” I told her.  She…

Most positive attribute: Good listener Least positive attribute: perfectionist Accomplishment you’re most proud of: Most negative life event: The time at school when there was no toilet paper How you handled this event: With my hands Most positive life event:…

To the press-drop coffee machine on the top floor, to the garbage man alone at home, to the faux leather couch on the side of the road, to the neo-theory student banded waist-high on a map that can’t lead her…

the earliest memory I have of god is of a pastor who was saying how his friend told him “the bible, thank you, is a great piece of literature” and so the pastor thwarted him in his prayers because literature…