1 Listen. Any premium verb you attach to synapse firing works. Glimmer, mend. Orgasm, even. Believe me, I checked: that leaky pipe is a spiral fracture we’ll never discover is a golden ratio. The best part is you can give a name to whatever it tells you. 2 If there is an equation to determine how much of me is the dust in your apartment, burn it. Burn it along with the single dead leaf skittering across the snow. Having faith in the actual earth.
Joshua Ruffin earned his MFA from Georgia College & State University. He has held jobs as a peach picker, radio producer, bartender, and hilariously unintimidating bouncer. Joshua's work has appeared in Post Road, PANK, Booth, Adirondack Review, Sierra Nevada Review, Bodega Mag, and elsewhere. He lives, works and runs in Madison, Wisconsin.
