Asimov's Science Fiction: March 2014
“One tiny decay, one slip, one instant, and a city is fled bare, left for weeds to gather on rooftops, slink through empty bedrooms, slowly thieve away structure, atom and shingle and chair, the maples and the elk ticking over with hubris.
I have flown, arms wide as imagination, over Hashima, stood on its sloping porches and leaned fearless on its tenuous rails, never to be trapped nor dead beneath it, one blink to carry me away.
One chemistry supplants another, and the city is bled dry ...of men, left for time to scour above, rock and pick abandoned below, as coal-dark remnants, skeletal and grim, loom upright, stalwart in a captive stillness they cannot evade.
I have sat beside you, listened to the pull and snag of your breath as the morphine drowned you, drip by drip, like winter rain, and you lay curled in your favorite chair that you would never leave.MoreLess
I have flown, arms wide as imagination, over Hashima, stood on its sloping porches and leaned fearless on its tenuous rails, never to be trapped nor dead beneath it, one blink to carry me away.
One chemistry supplants another, and the city is bled dry ...of men, left for time to scour above, rock and pick abandoned below, as coal-dark remnants, skeletal and grim, loom upright, stalwart in a captive stillness they cannot evade.
I have sat beside you, listened to the pull and snag of your breath as the morphine drowned you, drip by drip, like winter rain, and you lay curled in your favorite chair that you would never leave.MoreLess
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