Mark Cunningham

M a r k   C u n n i n g h a m

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She said if the sun is right, she loves to linger at an empty intersection and look at her chipped windshield and watch the light snag-spread into sparks, spectra, quasars. I close my eyes: I still see. I sleep: my eyes still move.

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Starflower: when I realize the name is enough and anything more is a let-down, I realized how much I still think the earth is flat. That tone of voice you use only when talking to yourself.

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“Mackenzie” is one of those names that can be either a first or a last name. Since it takes 500 milliseconds for the “time on” function of the conscious mind to activate after the initial nerve contact, I love clear winter afternoons, late sunlight holding amber even to the weed stubs around my boots, even on my hands. The envelope contained our second final notice.

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