The Rail
Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from our favorite emerging writers
Her Idiosyncrasies She has a crooked smile that reveals only her pure white front teeth. She furrows her brows when she needs a huge hug. She always kisses to the left so I can see her deep dark blue eyes. Each evening, around ten o’clock pm, she changes into her night gown. It is always folded on the bed chair when I come to bed. She is a three-pillow woman with the teddy bear I won at the fair on the middle pillow. If the bear is not there, a whole new set of parameters open for ephemeral exploration. Chivalric Code I take my right index finger and scrumble your makeup where tears have dug painted riverbeds across your puffy sallow cheeks. I can do nothing for your swollen crabapple eyes. I push long damp strands of chestnut hair back over your ears and wonder what your name is. Inoculate The Moment Time moves beyond and becomes memory. Memory becomes action. When pedestrian, it washes hands, creates earworm melodies, scents the aroma of coffee, announces the crying and combines colors. In rare moments when minutes slow and invite fate, it is then that the special serum is injected into the heart of otherwise gray matter R. Gerry Fabian is a retired English instructor. As a poet and novelist, he has been publishing his writing since 1972 in various literary magazines. He has published four books of his published poems, Parallels, Coming Out Of The Atlantic, Electronic Forecasts. and Ball On The Mound. In addition, he has published three novels. They are Getting Lucky (The Story), Memphis Masquerade, and Seventh Sense. All these books are available both as ebooks and paperbacks at all publishers including Amazon, Apple Books and Barnes and Noble. His web page is https://rgerryfabian.wordpress.com, Twitter @GerryFabian2. He lives in Doylestown, PA.
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