If you chase me I won't run, unless you like it that way. Zeus cruised Ganymede for variety. You turn out the light. I'll pick up the tab. Somehow the eyes are always there, appearing to vanish and reappear.
Stares burn hotter than the fire, scars into the scars.
Chris Gilmer teaches English at Tougaloo College, Jackson, Mississippi. He holds a PhD from the University of Southern Mississippi.