Daniel Mark Epstein

Because the past cannot bear to part with her the present suffers. So we wait in a lobby under the eyes of chandeliers, in train stations, on a street corner and at midnight in the graveyard with a spirit who waited in this world and waits in the nex [...]

You call to me as if I were in some other bed     or gone gold digging with the sun. In fact I was dreaming I had ten minutes to haul a fortune     in jewels and coins from the cache of a secret mountain. An underground river bolted under my [...]

"The certificate of Coroner Patterson in the case of Mrs. Henry Adams, who died suddenly in this city on Sunday last, is to the effect that she came to her death through an overdose of potassium cyanide, administered by herself. She was just recove [...]