Dispatches From the Basement

Dispatches From the Basement

Dispatch #76

Brookside

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Joseph Massey
Jul 08, 2022
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Brookside


The air, the dull glow of humidity; gnats and flies fray the corners, flash peripherally. Peeper chants pump from the other side of the brook, their dark pocket. When we stop talking, nothing else does. When language leaves us, how many other languages drum from the margins to reorganize the silence. 

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