She’s heading to the cabinet for another run through the field of dreams—or so it seems. She’s been dipping into the till; kind of hippie tripping right beside the still, been running through the mill—just like Jack was chasing Jill up the road, up the road, then down the road that never seems to end. It always has that unforgiving bend. Good thing that I am not her friend, because she would find her way into my cabinets; she would crawl inside my cabinets, take the tractor for a nice little plow. Oh, so predictable—just like a cartoon mouse rambling along through the rest of my torn house to all my other cabinets, to all my other cabinets. Now she’s heading to my favorite secret spot. Does a basic-entry sweep like I was always taught. Pharmers’ daughters don’t make for nice friends. I just need my cabinets until the very end. Shouldn’t friends know when to say when?
From, The Transitive Nightfall Of Diamonds, due out 8/14 from iUniverse books