Yeti Colliding with Angels/Red and Blue Rooftops (Novella Excerpt, 1998)

My ability to think, evaluate, grow were all degenerating: arboreal, amphibious, human, ghost. I see now, as I begin to recall what exactly happened, that life is so simple, so resolute in the functions that we have, where we place our arms and so on.

I can see the sunset through the front picture window in the reflection of the back window. The sky is purple, beauty looming above me, in reflections, in air, in sight. I’m holding back information because the moment I reveal anything I will be thought of as insane.  Even more frightening to me is the fact that if I start telling you what happened I will have to relive the experience.  There is a knife in these memories, they blindfold me and push me down stairs.

The red and blue rooftops are in black and white. I stand inside a picture from my past reacting to the flash.  The purple sky is gone; there is no beauty to distract me as my future runs viciously through a foot of mud.  I am an elephant crashing down into sleep.  In the darkness I can see the lights of airplanes coming and going, moving across the sky like crabs move across the sand.  I can hear the highway racing all around me, the city lights buzzing quietly in the grid.