The Somnambule's Crime
Torquemada
As Played By Robert Mitchum (Part 5)
Antelope
collarbones undone like laces or the bloodied stars cauterized by twilight.
Ahem. Two lovers lying down facing one another near a road leading out of town.
Where
the path narrows paper-pale birds before a dark window as he lights one
cigarette without reaching for a gun that isn’t there and yet is also reaching
out its thin hand to where I am not sitting next to him.