THE HIDDEN TRACK

The following passages are dedicated to Leopold, to the vernacular, to certain evil women (you know who you are), to certain wonderful people(they know who they are), to soft afternoons and quiet Sunday evenings, to Fall and seeing your breath for the first time since Spring, and to Isabelle Ya Feng ... a soul slipped by like two ships passing in the still, moonlit sea.
-- Abraham Ahmed, the Surfing Beatnik



Until “Until” is no Longer a Possibility....



The coolness of the night: a blanketing sweetness dissimilar from that of the noontime heat, yellow and salty.

How quietly the night shifts the mind from “can do” to “what if.”

Then, as if time purely leaped a chapter during the hours of clammy, wistful sleep, morning comes with its bands of sun tilting through the blurry windowpanes.

It is the smells of coffees, baked breads, and newspaper inks explaining to us that the coolness of the night is soon forthcoming once again; go and amass involvements and understandings and fears and disasters and successes until “until” is no longer a possibility.

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