The Moment Before the Word You are standing in a room full of people who are laughing, and you cannot explain why you feel like

The Drunk in the Gutter and the Saint on the Page You have seen him before. Not in a museum, not in a biography with

The Silence Before the Word You know the moment. The page is white and the pen is in your hand and there is no shortage

The Drunk at the Bar Who Sees Too Much He is already there when you arrive, sitting at the far end of the bar where

The Moment Before the Word You are standing in a kitchen at three in the morning and something is wrong, but not in any way

The Ungraspable Now Try it right now. Stop reading for a moment and attempt to catch what you are thinking. Not what you will think

The Noise Inside Before the First Word It is three in the morning and you are not asleep. You know this not because you have

The Body That Would Not Obey You know the sensation. Not pain exactly, but something close to its shadow — the moment when a thought

The Body Before the Word You are sitting in a seat that has been engineered for mild discomfort — not enough to make you leave,

The Body That Remembers What the Mind Has Forgotten You have been sitting at this desk for three hours. Your shoulders are somewhere near your

The Body That Cannot Lie You are sitting in a meeting that has been running for forty minutes longer than it should. Someone at the

The Mirror That Watches Back You catch your reflection at the wrong moment. Not when you are alone, composing yourself before leaving the house, adjusting