Rubin Asher Smith

The pink sunrise alighted on N's closed eyelids.

In every man’s life there are certain events that are said to transform him from a boy into a man.

I awoke in a holy silence from that darkened womb where I’ve remained a child.

A woman is humming in the common space now and I feel very calmed by her, though she doesn’t know me and I don’t know her.

I knew that the two of us had grown slightly crazy in the few months we’d been living together, but honestly I didn’t realize the full extent of it until that one pale-skied Friday in November.

There is nothing other than this molten mass of iron we call life.

Termites on the Bridgetop at Forest Park are red and small and easy to mistake and smudge with your finger.

In his dream the other week Dr.

She let a cloud of smoke exit her mouth, and then rubbed her eyes and face with her left hand.

“Today is the day that I change my name.”